404 ◾ Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Current Status and Future Trends
Underwater ad hoc networks are envisioned to enable applications for oceanographic data col-
lection, ocean sampling, environmental and pollution monitoring, offshore exploration, disaster
prevention, tsunami or seaquake early warning, assisted navigation, and video surveillance sys-
tems for underwater vehicles and structures. To make these applications viable, it is necessary to
create an underwater communication platform among underwater ad hoc devices. e underwater
communication platform must be created using fixed and mobile nodes with self-configuration
capabilities in order to have some flexibility in cases of lost of remote supervision or in a failure
event. e nodes must ...