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Demo: Underwater Backscatter Link Budget Tool

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Ahmed Allam,

Waleed Akbar,

Fadel AdibAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM '23: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference

Pages 1191 - 1192

https://doi.org/10.1145/3603269.3610836

Published: 01 September 2023 Publication History

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Acoustic backscatter is a recent communication technology that enables ultra-low power sensing and connectivity in underwater environments. This demo presents an interactive graphical tool (Matlab App) for quickly evaluating the performance of acoustic backscatter in real-world scenarios. Our tool enables users to customize a backscatter system with practical underwater transducers and channel properties, then uses an analytical framework to predict the system's power-up and communication range. Researchers and IoT designers with no acoustics background can leverage our tool to make informed design choices and optimize their system's performance. A demo video of the tool can be found here: https://youtu.be/CJBYtOHUjC8

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Demo: Underwater Backscatter Link Budget Tool
1. Applied computing
  1. Physical sciences and engineering
2. Networks
  1. Network components
    1. Physical links
  2. Network types
    1. Mobile networks

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ACM SIGCOMM '23: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference

September 2023

1217 pages

ISBN:9798400702365

DOI:10.1145/3603269

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Akbar WAllam AAdib F(2024)Underwater Backscatter: What is its Practical Communication Distance?GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications10.1145/3665112.366512128:1(35-39)Online publication date: 13-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3665112.3665121
Bhardwaj AAllam AErturk ASabra K(2024)Ultrasound-Powered Wireless Underwater Acoustic Identification Tags for Backscatter CommunicationIEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control10.1109/TUFFC.2023.334463871:2(304-313)Online publication date: Feb-2024
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