Clustering Base Energy Efficient Mechanism for an Underwater Wireless Sensor Network

Underwater sensor networks are significantly different from terrestrial networks due to certain characteristics of low bandwidth, high proliferation delay, absorption, attenuation and limited energy. These unique features cause challenges in the development of protocols for underwater sensor network...

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Published in:Wireless personal communications 2022, Vol.124 (4), p.3725-3741
Main Authors: Rizvi, Huma Hasan, Khan, Sadiq Ali, Enam, Rabia Noor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cluster analysis
Clustering
Communications Engineering
Computer Communication Networks
Conservation
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Engineering
Methodology
Networks
Sensors
Signal,Image and Speech Processing
Underwater detectors
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Underwater sensor networks are significantly different from terrestrial networks due to certain characteristics of low bandwidth, high proliferation delay, absorption, attenuation and limited energy. These unique features cause challenges in the development of protocols for underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) by researchers. In any case, energy conservation is one of the characteristics that ought to be considered. In this paper, considering the underwater (UW) constraint, we propose an energy conservation methodology that benefits from the use of the LEACH calculation method for UWSNs. The simulation results of our proposed hierarchical clustering strategy for UW networks are compared with the hierarchical clustering strategy of LEACH of terrestrial networks and show that the proposed methodology for UWSNs matches that of LEACH for terrestrial WSNs. Similar to the LEACH protocol, the proposed methodology also reduces the total energy consumption and prolongs the life of the UWSN. In a certain round, the number of nodes that are alive and the life of the network remain the same.
ISSN:0929-6212
1572-834X
DOI:10.1007/s11277-022-09536-x