Jim Partan

I am a graduate student in Computer Science at UMass-Amherst, and an electrical engineer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. I am working on underwater acoustic wireless networks -- disruption-tolerant, ad hoc communication networks for mobile underwater vehicles.

Papers relevant to underwater networks:

Jim Partan, Jim Kurose, Brian Neil Levine, "A Survey of Practical Issues in Underwater Networks". Accepted, 2007, in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Special Issue on Underwater Networks. Originally published in WUWNet'06: Proc. 1st ACM Int'l Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), Los Angeles, California, pp.17-25, 25 Sept. 2006. (Powerpoint slides for talk.) BibTeX

Lee Freitag, Matt Grund, Sandipa Singh, Jim Partan, Peter Koski, Keenan Ball, "The WHOI Micro-Modem: An Acoustic Communications and Navigation System for Multiple Platforms," in Proc. MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2005, vol.2, pp.1086-1092, 17-23 Sept. 2005. BibTeX

Lee Freitag, Matt Grund, Jim Partan, Keenan Ball, Sandipa Singh, Peter Koski, "Multi-Band Acoustic Modem for the Communications and Navigation Aid AUV," in Proc. MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2005, vol.2, pp.1080-1085, 17-23 Sept. 2005. BibTeX

Dan Frye, Jon Ware, Matt Grund, Jim Partan, Peter Koski, Sandipa Singh, Lee Freitag, John Collins, Robert Detrick, "An acoustically-linked deep-ocean observatory," in Proc. Oceans 2005 - Europe, vol.2, pp.969-974, 20-23 June 2005. BibTeX