supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.60472060 and 60473039);the National High Technology Research and Development Programof China (863 Program,Grant No.2006AA01Z119);the Innovation Fund of Chinese Academy of Space Technology (Grant No.CAST20090801)
Owing to the long propagation delay and high error rate of acoustic channels, it is very challenging to provide reliable data transfer for underwater sensor networks. Moreover, network coding is proved to be an effect...