Title: An environment-aware routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks

Authors: Abdul Wahid; Sungwon Lee; Dongkyun Kim

Addresses: Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong, Book-gu, Daegu 702-701, Korea ' Graduate School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong, Book-gu, Daegu 702-701, Korea ' School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University, 1370 Sankyuk-dong, Book-gu, Daegu 702-701, Korea

Abstract: A number of routing protocols have been proposed for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). However, most of their routing protocols do not take into account the environmental information like water depth since the shallow and deep water have different characteristics. In this article, we present an environment-aware routing protocol (named ERP) for UWSNs. ERP performs different routing operations according to the water depth in UWSNs. Using the NS-2 simulator, ERP is compared against a well-known routing protocol (i.e., DBR) and a localisation-free routing protocol (i.e., H2-DAB). Simulations results prove that ERP shows increased performance improvements over DBR and H2-DAB.

Keywords: environment-aware routing; routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; underwater WSNs; UWSNs; localisation; water depth; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAACS.2015.069565

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, 2015 Vol.8 No.2/3, pp.228 - 242

Received: 31 Jan 2013
Accepted: 26 May 2013
Published online: 27 May 2015 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article