Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (12): 3829-3836.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2022.12.28

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A new mechanism for reef coral monitoring based on underwater cloud-edge collaborative architecture

Zhigang JIN1, Chenxu DUAN1, Qiuling YANG2, Yishan SU1,*   

  1. 1. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
    2. School of Computer Science and Cyberspace Security, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
  • Received:2021-09-07 Online:2022-11-14 Published:2022-11-24
  • Contact: Yishan SU

Abstract:

Coral reefs are marine ecosystems of great research value, and underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) are effective means to monitor and protect this system. However, with the extensive application of underwater sensing equipment, the types and quantity of sensing data have increased greatly. The traditional UASNs architecture uploads the raw data directly to the surface data center, which brings severe challenges to the network energy and communication efficiency. This paper constructs an underwater end-edge-cloud system architecture based on edge computing, and proposes a two-level collaborative coral reef system monitoring mechanism. This architecture sinks complex processing tasks from the remote cloud center to the edge, and reduces the cloud processing load. The mechanism includes end-side image processing and end-edge collaborative data detection strategies, which realizes the edge-side execution of machine learning tasks and the in-situ processing of data. Experimental results show that this study can significantly reduce network data traffic, effectively decrease energy consumption and transmission delay, and extend network life cycle.

Key words: underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs), edge computing architecture, cloud-edge collaborative, coral reef monitoring

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