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Underwater Ad Hoc Wireless Communication for Video Delivery

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Due to the high attenuation of the water at high frequencies, underwater communications in freshwater are not being investigated so much. Many current underwater communication systems are based on acoustic or optical techniques. The use of electromagnetic (EM) waves in this medium, even in short distances, increases the bandwidth, which definitely implies a great advantage for video delivery. Related literature shows that the speed propagation and absorption coefficient in freshwater are independent of the working frequency of the transmitted signals. No work shows any temperature dependence with the electromagnetic waves propagation. In this paper, we study the EM wave’s behavior when we vary the temperature at 2.4 GHz in underwater freshwater environments. We are going to study the signal behavior in this medium in order to deliver video images from the marine fish cages with the purpose of monitoring the fish activity. To carry out our study, we fix the water conditions and measure the maximum distance as a function of several network parameters such as the working frequency, data transfer rate, modulations and water temperature. Our results show that some combinations of temperature and working frequency generate better results than others. Finally, we will compare our results with the statements extracted from other works.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been partially supported by the “Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación”, through the “Plan Nacional de I+D+i 2008–2011” in the “Subprograma de Proyectos de Investigación Fundamental”(Project TEC2011-27516), by the postdoctoral Grant “contratación de doctores para el acceso al sistema español de ciencia, tecnología e innovación, en estructuras de Investigación de la UPV (PAID-10-14)” by the“Universitat Politècnica de València” and by the “Programa para la Formación de Personal Investigador—(FPI-2015-S2-884)” by the“Universitat Politècnica de València”.

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  1. Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Sandra Sendra, Jaime Lloret & Jose M. Jimenez

  2. Faculty of Engineering, School of Computer Engineering, University of Koya, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

    Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor

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Sendra, S., Lloret, J., Jimenez, J.M. et al. Underwater Ad Hoc Wireless Communication for Video Delivery. Wireless Pers Commun 96, 5123–5144 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3732-8

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