Software perspective to Underwater Acoustic Sensors Network

The Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UWASN) has sensors which are deployed underwater for gathering information for the unexplored parts of oceans or rivers. UWASN consists of variable number of floating and anchored sensors, sink and vehicles that are deployed over an area to be explored. Thus the deployment efforts of UWASN have curbed with preposterous budgetary price and eminent power depletion of hardware related to acoustics targeted a long range revelation in deep water. For solving this problem, software driven approach for UWASN is discussed which will confide various electronics device that are coupled with modem for establishing revelation links underwater. The revelation can be classified in two parts: Single and multi hoping. But in underwater we use multi- hop revelation for sending data from end nodes to sink nodes. The various units like intonation, filtering, symbol synchronization and denotation etc are embedded in software driven underwater acoustic sensor network (SD-UWASN) and thus the application opportunities are addressed related to SD-UWASN is presented. Hence, in this paper we have focussed on various challenges related to software driven UWASN with discussing various software design parameters.