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范围内日益重要。因此，需要建立和部署实时的水下联网传感基础设施，以达到理想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工作，但到目前为止，由于没有公共平台来评估和比较各种通信和网络算法和协议，社区试验台的缺乏阻碍了进一步的进展。此外，由于系统部署和维护的高昂成本，很少有研究能够负担得起真正的系统特征。该项目涉及设计和部署一个开放的水下试验台套件，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。测试床将包括表面节点、底层节点和带有可重新配置调制解调器的移动节点的灵活选择。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，试验床将使海洋学家能够研究科学研究问题，同时将试验床用作在其他地方进行更大规模实时监测部署的原型。试验台还将通过REU项目吸引本科生参与，通过支持实地课程影响课程开发，并吸引K-12学生和教师参与，特别是在服务不足的社区，从而直接影响本科生研究和学生多样性。

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.