@proceedings {169,
	title = {Reliability in Underwater Inter-Vehicle Communications},
	year = {2008},
	month = { September },
	address = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
	abstract = {Underwater networks are envisioned to enable several applications
for oceanographic data collection, environmental monitoring, navigation,
and tactical surveillance. Underwater acoustic networking
is the enabling technology for these applications. Most of these
applications make use of underwater vehicles and rely on intervehicle
communication capabilities for information exchange and
coordination purposes. Reliable data delivery, especially in the
case of mobile underwater vehicles, is therefore a major concern
in many of these applications. In this paper, three versions of a reliable
unicast protocol are proposed, which integrate MAC and routing
functionalities and leverage different levels of neighbor knowledge
for making optimum decisions for reliable data delivery. The
different levels of neighbor knowledge used by the protocols are:
(i) no neighbor knowledge, (ii) one-hop neighbor knowledge, and
(iii) two-hop neighbor knowledge. The three versions of the protocol
have been devised by considering the peculiar characteristics
of underwater channel, in design as well as in performance simulation.
The protocols have been compared in static as well as mobile
scenarios in terms of different end-to-end networking metrics.},
	author = {A. A. Nimbalkar and D Pompili}
}
