Abstract: “The paper considers the performance of underwater acoustic ad-hoc networks. A uniform distribution of nodes over a finite area is assumed. The node-to-node channel is modeled through the Ricean fading model. The paper adopts a communication theoretic approach and studies the impact of point-to-point convolutional channel coding on the sustainable number of hops through the network. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the results of the analysis.”

Keywords: underwater acoustic networks, fading