Reliable Data Transmission Scheme for Perception Layer of Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT)

Abstract

Internet of Underwater things (IoUT) is growing into one of the most important research interests since the last few decades. The primary objective of IoUT is to develop a worldwide network of smart underwater-interconnected objects. It has wide-ranging aquatic applications, including surveillance, pollution reduction, monitoring offshore oil and gas pipelines, disaster prevention, and navigation assistance, making it as important as a terrestrial communication system. The underwater communication channel poses unique acoustic communication challenges that suffer from long propagation delay, low bandwidth, multipath, and fading. IoUT significantly differs from the conventional Internet of Things (IoT) due to disparate environmental conditions under the ocean that require re-designing the underwater communication channel model. In addition to the challenges mentioned above, end-to-end delay and efficient energy utilization are also of great concern. Therefore, in this research paper, diverse attributes of underwater acoustic communication, including the speed of sound, transmission loss, absorption, and ambient noise, are analyzed to design a channel model for underwater communication. These environmental conditions also make underwater acoustic channels highly variable, so efficient resources, including bandwidth and power, are required. Adaptive modulation is proposed to make the communications system efficient by considering the distance between nodes and the signal-to-noise ratio as channel state information. The proposed channel model critically analyzed the CSI factors, results show efficient bandwidth utilization and appropriate power consumption for the well-suited route. The proposed research also aims to reduce end-to-end propagation delay by considering vertical angle-based shortest path (efficient route) in the Multilevel rotating priority MRP-routing algorithm.