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The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for surveillance and monitoring gives rise to the confidential information leakage challenge in both civilian and military environments. The security and covert communication problems for a…

Several years ago, wireless sensor networks were used only by the military. These networks, which have many uses and are subject to limitations, the most important of which is the energy constraint, this energy constraint creates the…

Intensified underwater activities have driven the escalating demand for reliable, flexible, and high data-rate underwater communication links. Optical wireless communication (OWC) emerges as the most promising technology for short- to…

Sixth-generation wireless communication (6G) will be an integrated architecture of "space, air, ground and sea". One of the most difficult part of this architecture is the underwater information acquisition which need to transmitt…

In this paper, we consider an eavesdropping attack on a multi-hop, UnderWater Acoustic Sensor Network (UWASN) that consists of $M+1$ underwater sensors which report their sensed data via Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)…

This paper provides recent advances in the area of Internet of Underground Things (IoUT) with emphasis on enabling communication technologies, networking issues, and localization techniques. IoUT is enabled by underground things (sensors),…

Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) based underwater optical wireless communications (UOWCs), a technology with low latency and high data rates, have attracted significant importance for underwater robots. However, maintaining a controlled line of…

We systematically investigate the bubble-induced performance degradation for underwater wireless optical communication (UOWC) with different bubble sizes and positions. By using different transmit and receive diversities, we investigate the…

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) supports ocean sensing and offshore monitoring but requires coordinated mobility and energy-aware communication to sustain long-term operation. This letter proposes a multi-AUV framework that jointly…

This paper is devoted to local sensing and communication for collective underwater systems used in networked and swarm modes. It is demonstrated that a specific combination of modal and sub-modal communication, used simultaneously for…

Typical magnetic induction (MI) communication is commonly considered a secure underwater wireless communication (UWC) technology due to its non-audible and non-visible nature compared to acoustic and optical UWC technologies. However,…

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) represent a promising technology that enables diverse underwater applications through acoustic communication. However, it encounters significant challenges including harsh communication…

Achieving high throughput and reliability in underwater acoustic networks for transmitting distributed and large volume of data is a challenging task due to the bandwidth-limited and unpredictable nature of the acoustic channel. In a…

This work considers a line-of-sight underwater acoustic sensor network (UWASN) consisting of $M$ underwater sensor nodes randomly deployed according to uniform distribution within a vertical half-disc (the so-called trusted zone). The…

Post commercial deployment of fifth-generation (5G) technologies, the consideration of sixth-generation (6G) networks is drawing remarkable attention from research communities. Researchers suggest that similar to 5G, 6G technology must be…

The DESERT Underwater framework (http://desert-underwater.dei.unipd.it/), originally designed for simulating and testing underwater acoustic networks in sea trials, has recently been extended to support real payload data transmission…

This work deals with the physical layer security performance of a dual-hop underwater optical communication (UOWC)-radio frequency (RF) network under the intruding attempts of multiple eavesdroppers via RF links. The intermediate decode and…

For data sets retrieved from wireless sensors to be insightful, it is often of paramount importance that the data be accurate and also location stamped. This paper describes a maximum-likelihood based multihop localization algorithm called…

In this paper we analyze and investigate the bit error rate (BER) performance of multiple-input multiple-output underwater wireless optical communication (MIMO-UWOC) systems. In addition to exact BER expressions, we also obtain an upper…

Underwater observatories have recently emerged as an efficient solution for marine biodiversity monitoring. The primary objective of this work is to enable efficient and cost-effective data muling from underwater sensors by investigating…