An Energy Efficient Localization-Free Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Recently, underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have attracted much research attention from both academia and industry, in order to explore the vast underwater environment. UWSNs have peculiar characteristics; that is, they have large propagation delay, high error rate, low bandwidth, and limi...

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Published in:International journal of distributed sensor networks 2012-01, Vol.2012 (2012), p.1-11
Main Authors: Wahid, Abdul, Kim, Dongkyun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer networks
Computer Simulation
Conferences
Delay
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Environmental monitoring
Internet
Network Time Protocol (Computer network protocol)
Networks
Protocol
Routing
Routing (telecommunications)
Routing protocols (Computer network protocols)
Sensors
Simulation
Studies
Underwater
Wireless networks
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Summary:Recently, underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have attracted much research attention from both academia and industry, in order to explore the vast underwater environment. UWSNs have peculiar characteristics; that is, they have large propagation delay, high error rate, low bandwidth, and limited energy. Therefore, designing network/routing protocols for UWSNs is very challenging. Also, in UWSNs, improving the energy efficiency is one of the most important issues since the replacement of the batteries of underwater sensor nodes is very expensive due to the unpleasant underwater environment. In this paper, we therefore propose an energy efficient routing protocol, named (energy-efficient depth-based routing protocol) EEDBR for UWSNs. EEDBR utilizes the depth of sensor nodes for forwarding data packets. Furthermore, the residual energy of sensor nodes is also taken into account in order to improve the network lifetime. Based on the comprehensive simulation using NS2, we observe that EEDBR contributes to the performance improvements in terms of the network lifetime, energy consumption, and end-to-end delay. A previous version of this paper was accepted in AST-2011 conference.
ISSN:1550-1329
1550-1477
1550-1477
DOI:10.1155/2012/307246