Abstract
The Internet of Underwater Things technology can be established using various underwater wireless communications technologies, including acoustic, radio frequency (RF), magnetic induction, and optical. Each of these technologies has its pros and cons; for example, acoustic technology reaches longer distances but is bandwidth limited, while underwater optical wireless communications (UOWCs) can support higher data rates at the cost of short ranges. Besides establishing communication links using these technologies, geographic data tagging of the underwater IoT nodes is also crucial and challenging for several applications. Hence, this talk will provide an overview of the rapidly evolving positioning systems and algorithms for different underwater technologies for location estimation of the underwater IoT nodes and their applications.
Brief Biography
Nasir Saeed (Senior Member, IEEE) received MS in satellite navigation from the Polito di Torino, Italy, in 2012, and Ph.D. in electronics and communication engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2015. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IQRA National University, Peshawar, from August 2015 to July 2017. From July 2017 to December 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Communication Theory and Information Systems Labs, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia. His current research interests include underwater wireless communications, aerial networks, Industrial IoT, and localization.