Abstract :
Underwater wireless communication is a
flourishing research area in the field of wireless communications. This paper
presents the overall framework of the necessity of underwater wireless systems,
characteristics of an acoustic channel, hardware and working of acoustic
modems, sensor networks and different communication architectures involved in
the sensor networks.
Applications till date, like oceanographic data
collection,AUVs(autonomous underwater vehicles),underwater radio etc.., future
challenges like effective transmission of video and audio signals by real time
monitoring have been emphasized with a view to overcome the present
limitations.