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Time Synchronization in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey

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Time synchronization in underwater sensor networks (UWS-Ns) has come up as an active area of research in recent years. The drastic differences in physical and chemical characteristics of underwater environments as compared to terrestrial environments have necessitated that underwater time synchronization protocols be different from their terrestrial counterparts. The protocols reviewed in this survey range from static to dynamic, doppler assisted, and ordinary least squares-based protocols. This paper is an attempt to review ten such UWSN time synchronization protocols that are in extant literature and elaborate on the advantages and disadvantages of each of them.

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  1. National Institute of Technology Raipur, Raipur, India

    Amrita Datta & Mou Dasgupta

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Haringhata, India

    Debasis Giri

  2. The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

  3. Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

    Saminathan Ponnusamy

  4. Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Weizhi Meng

  5. Department of Computer Engineering, Ondokuz Mayis University, Atakum, Turkey

    Sedat Akleylek

  6. Department of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, West Bengal, India

    Santi Prasad Maity

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Datta, A., Dasgupta, M. (2022). Time Synchronization in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey. In: Giri, D., Raymond Choo, KK., Ponnusamy, S., Meng, W., Akleylek, S., Prasad Maity, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Mathematics and Computing . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1412. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6890-6_32

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