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

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的重要性日益增加。因此，需要建立和部署实时水下网络传感基础设施，以达到所需的监测和数据收集水平。尽管在水下无线网络领域进行了一波又一波的研究，但由于缺乏一个社区测试平台，迄今为止阻碍了进一步的进展，因为没有一个通用的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的高成本，很少有研究能够考虑到真实的系统特征。该项目包括设计和部署一个开放式水下试验台套件，在康涅狄格州、加利福尼亚州、德克萨斯州和华盛顿州的四个地点向公众开放。测试平台将包括灵活选择的表面节点、底部节点和具有可重构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，运行通信、网络、传感和数据流测试。此外，该试验台将使海洋学家能够研究科学研究问题，同时将试验台作为其他地方更大规模实时监测部署的原型。该测试平台还将直接影响本科生的研究和学生的多样性，通过REU项目让本科生参与进来，通过实地课程影响课程开发，并吸引K-12学生和教师，特别是在服务不足的社区。

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.