Multiple Mobile Sink Architecture Based Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Author(s):  
S. Anandalatchoumy ◽  
G. Sivaradje



IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 39587-39604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Faheem ◽  
Rizwan Aslam Butt ◽  
Basit Raza ◽  
Hani Alquhayz ◽  
Muhammad Waqar Ashraf ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Zhu ◽  
Junfang Wei

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have drawn tremendous attentions from all fields because of their wide application. Underwater wireless sensor networks are similar to terrestrial Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), however, due to different working environment and communication medium, UWSNs have many unique characteristics such as high bit error rate, long end-to-end delay and low bandwidth. These characteristics of UWSNs lead to many problems such as retransmission, high energy consumption and low reliability. To solve these problems, many routing protocols for UWSNs are proposed. In this paper, a localization-free routing protocol, named energy efficient routing protocol based on layers and unequal clusters (EERBLC) is proposed. EERBLC protocol consists of three phases: layer and unequal cluster formation, transmission routing, maintenance and update of clusters. In the first phase, the monitoring area under the water is divided into layers, the nodes in the same layer are clustered. For balancing energy of the whole network and avoiding the “hotspot” problem, a novel unequal clustering method based on layers for UWSNs is proposed, in which a new calculation method of unequal cluster size is presented. Meanwhile, a new cluster head selection mechanism based on energy balance and degree is given. In the transmission phase, EERBLC protocol proposes a novel next forwarder selection method based on the forwarding ratio and the residual energy. In the third phase, Intra and inter cluster updating method is presented. The simulation results show that the EERBLC can effectively balance the energy consumption, prolong the network lifetime, and increase the amount of data transmission compared with DBR and EEDBR protocols.



2012 ◽  
Vol 241-244 ◽  
pp. 837-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Chen ◽  
Xu Min Xu ◽  
Shao Hui Zhang ◽  
Guo Fu Feng

Energy consumption phenomenon has always been noticed in sink-based wireless sensor networks. This paper explored an energy efficient routing protocol with a mobile sink based on the shortest path data transmission mode. According to the position of the sink node and the common nodes' ID in the network, we calculated the coordinate value of each node in the network. By comparing the coordinate values to choose the shortest path to forward the data. Simulation results show that this method can prolong the lifetime of the network and improve the energy utilization ratio of nodes.





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