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Underwater acoustic sensor networks, characterized by long propagation delays and limited channel bandwidth, have drawn significant attentions and plentiful work has been done on the analysis of media access control protocols, including the contention-based ones for multi-hop underwater acoustic sensor networks. However, these existing models have not been validated by the simulations or the experiments. Moreover, we find that the models are inaccurate since they implicitly assume that a node can transmit two packets at the same time which is impractical. In order to improve the model, in this paper we continually focus on the performance analysis of Aloha for a string multi-hop network. We also conducted simulations via NS-3 using Thorp attenuation model to validate the proposed model, and we found that our model can better coincide with the simulation results. In underwater sensor networks, moreover, we found another factor need to be considered which is the influence of the nodes outside of the transmission radius.
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Yao, N., Yu, H., Cai, S., Han, Q. (2012). Performance Analysis of Aloha for String Multi-hop Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks. In: Wang, X., Zheng, R., Jing, T., Xing, K. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31869-6_61
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