Collaborative Research: CI-ADDO-NEW: Ocean-TUNE: A Community Ocean Testbed for Underwater Wireless Networks

合作研究：CI-ADDO-NEW：Ocean-TUNE：水下无线网络的社区海洋测试平台

• 批准号: 1205725
• 负责人: Sumit Roy
• 金额: $ 69万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1205725&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CI; ADDO; NEW

There is growing global importance of ocean exploration and monitoring as the oceans play a major role in climate regulation, nutrient production, resource retrieval and transportation, etc. Building and deploying a real-time underwater networked sensing infrastructure is thus needed for desired levels of monitoring and data collection. Despite a wave of research efforts in the area of underwater wireless networks, the lack of a community testbed has so far hampered further advances, as there is no common platform to evaluate and compare various communication and networking algorithms and protocols. Furthermore very few studies can afford to consider real system features due to the high cost of system deployment and maintenance.This project involves the design and deployment of an open underwater testbed suite, accessible to the public at four sites in Connecticut, California, Texas, and Washington States. The testbed will include flexible choices of surface nodes, bottom nodes, and mobile nodes with reconfigurable modems. It will enable the vision of remote controlled and continuous networked node deployments running tests of communication, networking, sensing, and data streaming. In addition, the testbed will enable oceanographers to study scientific research questions, while using the testbed as a prototype for larger real-time monitoring deployments elsewhere. The testbed will also directly impact undergraduate research and student diversity by involving undergraduate students through REU programs, impacting curriculum development by enabling field courses, and engaging K-12 students and teachers, particularly in underserved communities.

由于海洋在气候调节、营养物质生产、资源回收和运输等方面发挥着重要作用，海洋勘探和监测在全球范围内的重要性日益增加。因此，需要建设和部署实时水下网络传感基础设施来实现所需的监测水平和数据收集。尽管在水下无线网络领域进行了一波研究工作，但迄今为止缺乏社区测试平台阻碍了进一步的进展，因为没有通用平台来评估和比较各种通信和网络算法和协议。此外，由于系统部署和维护成本高昂，很少有研究能够考虑真实的系统功能。该项目涉及开放式水下测试台套件的设计和部署，公众可以在康涅狄格州、加利福尼亚州、德克萨斯州、和华盛顿州。该测试平台将包括灵活选择表面节点、底部节点和带有可重新配置调制解调器的移动节点。它将实现远程控制和连续网络节点部署的愿景，并运行通信、网络、传感和数据流测试。此外，该测试台将使海洋学家能够研究科学研究问题，同时将该测试台用作其他地方更大规模实时监测部署的原型。该测试平台还将通过 REU 项目让本科生参与进来，通过启用实地课程来影响课程开发，以及吸引 K-12 学生和教师（特别是在服务欠缺的社区），从而直接影响本科生研究和学生多样性。