Auction Game Based Optical and Acoustic Communication Scheduling Mechanism for Underwater Scenario

In this paper, we studied the transmission performance of underwater wireless networks, where underwater network users (UNUs) can transmit their data through wireless optical and acoustic communication in a certain range to improve the overall underwater networks. By jointly considering UNUs' volume of data transferred and overall network transmission performance, we introduced an auction game based optical and acoustic communication mechanism (AGOC). With AGOC mechanism, the base transceiver station (BTS) sells wireless optical communication chances through auctions. The users will decide whether to bid according to their own situation, and then the winner could use wireless optical to transmit finally. The simulation results verified the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm. It also be concluded that AGOC mechanism could improve the overall underwater wireless network performance through reducing the number of UNUs contending for the wireless optical channel.