Design of multi-mode communication and clustering protocol for underwater acoustic network

Underwater acoustic sensor networks have wide application prospects in both commercial and military fields, and can be applied to marine environment monitoring, seabed resources exploration, disaster prevention, aided navigation, distributed detection, etc. In this paper, the software defined open architecture of acoustic modem, adaptive adjustment of multi-mode communication, and clustering protocol are given. The effectiveness of these methods is verified by an underwater acoustic communication network field trial.