RT Journal Article T1 Optimal Fair Scheduling in S-TDMA Sensor Networks for Monitoring River Plumes A1 Luque-Nieto, Miguel Ángel A1 Moreno-Roldán, José Miguel A1 Poncela-González, Javier A1 Otero-Roth, Pablo K1 Redes inalámbricas K1 Acústica submarina AB Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are a promising technology to provide oceanographers with environmental datain real time. Suitable network topologies to monitor estuaries are formed by strings coming together to a sink node.This networkmay be understood as an oriented graph. A number of MAC techniques can be used in UWSNs, but Spatial-TDMA is preferredfor fixed networks. In this paper, a scheduling procedure to obtain the optimal fair frame is presented, under ideal conditionsof synchronization and transmission errors. The main objective is to find the theoretical maximum throughput by overlappingthe transmissions of the nodes while keeping a balanced received data rate from each sensor, regardless of its location in thenetwork. The procedure searches for all cliques of the compatibility matrix of the network graph and solves a Multiple-VectorBin Packing (MVBP) problem. This work addresses the optimization problem and provides analytical and numerical results forboth the minimum frame length and the maximum achievable throughput. PB Hindawi Publishing Corporation YR 2016 FD 2016 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/11077 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/11077 LA eng NO Miguel-Angel Luque-Nieto, José-Miguel Moreno-Roldán, Javier Poncela, and Pablo Otero, “Optimal Fair Scheduling in S-TDMA Sensor Networks for Monitoring River Plumes,” Journal of Sensors, vol. 2016, Article ID 8671516, 6 pages, 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/8671516 DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 19 ene 2026