Internet of Underwater Things: Developing Next Generation Large-Scale Autonomous Ocean Monitoring Systems

点击翻译按钮获取中文摘要

The world is experiencing an era of climate change, increased oil exploration, and commercial ships and oil tankers travel on sea ice, exploration of natural resources on the Arctic, a rising of offshore fishing activities, growth of overseas transportation of goods, where ships carry approximately 95% of goods in North. Therefore, it is urgent the persistent, autonomous, real-time and large-scale data collection, monitoring, and surveillance of oceans towards the in-deep understanding of the critical roles they play, their sustainable exploration and protection, as well as the efficient information sharing for supporting marine traffic and improve safety navigation, and the effective response in case of emergencies and accidents in deep and iced sea. The worrying fact is that current technologies for data-sampling from oceans have severe limitations and are far from supporting the ever-growing demand for smart ocean applications. This proposal is devoted to investigate, design and develop the foundations towards an innovative technology and autonomous infrastructure for underwater monitoring, which will supply the ever-growing demand for all sorts of underwater sensing and computation resources that will empower the next generation of large-scale, autonomous and real-time smart ocean applications. To do so, this program will address critical and fundamental challenges in terms of resource management and control, topology control, and content delivery in software-defined Internet of Underwater Things (SDN-IoUTs) for multimedia and time-critical-based smart ocean applications. The PI is responding to the growing demands of multimedia data from deep oceans and of autonomous technologies for supporting fast response in case of disasters and emergencies in deep and ice sea. The long-term vision of this research is towards the design of efficient protocols and architectures for multimedia content delivery in SDN-IoUTs. Last, but not least, this program is expected to produce the knowledge and principles that will lead to the development of a new era in wireless networking and service provisioning systems for smart oceans-based applications, training HQP in areas with impressive growing demand by ICT and smart ocean and offshore Canadian companies, assist these Canadian industries to be the frontrunner of the technological advancements, and enhance Canada's competitive position and goal of creating a world-leading marine safety system.