EDA-SALSA: Towards smart adaptive underwater acoustic networking

In this paper, the European Defence Agency (EDA) project SALSA is presented. In SALSA, which stands for Smart Adaptive Long- and Short-range Acoustic network, five European navies have united to create a common protocol stack for adaptive underwater acoustic communication and cognitive underwater networking. Within four years, the SALSA stack will be tested at sea for relevant military scenarios, to demonstrate the advantages of a flexible and robust underwater acoustic network that autonomously adapts itself to changing operational and environmental conditions.