scholarly journals An Energy Efficient Routing Protocol Based on Layers and Unequal Clusters in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

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.

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 39587-39604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Faheem ◽  
Rizwan Aslam Butt ◽  
Basit Raza ◽  
Hani Alquhayz ◽  
Muhammad Waqar Ashraf ◽  
...  

For ocean exploration high speed data transmission is the emergent requirement. Acoustic sensor networks are available to support large distances but with lower data rates and also consume maximum energy. Optical networks can be used to support high speed data transmission but it cannot be used for larger distances. Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) suffer from large propagation delay, high bit error rates, limited bandwidth, uncontrolled node mobility, water current and limited resources. Hence there is an evolving requirement for design and use of an efficient routing protocol. In the proposed research, design of an Optimal Distributed Energy Efficient Hybrid Optical - Acoustic Cluster Based Routing Protocol (EEHCRP) to minimize the energy consumption in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks is considered. To overcome these problems we propose an Energy Efficient Hybrid Optical-Acoustic Cluster Based Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (EEHCRP). In this research work we study various network parameters like network throughput, network life time, average energy consumption, end to end delay and data delivery ratio for mobile nodes ranging from 50 to 500. It is observed that there is an average increase of 0.9% network throughput in the proposed EEHRCP protocol compared to CBE2R protocol. The network life time is increased to 51.2 seconds with a decrease in 0.93% of energy consumption and 0.48 % decrease in end to end delay in the proposed protocol EEHRCP compared to CBE2R protocol. There is an increase in 0.95% of data delivery ratio using the proposed EEHRCP protocol compared to E-CBCCP protocol.


Author(s):  
Shu Han ◽  
Xiao-ming Liu ◽  
Hong-yu Huang ◽  
Fei Wang ◽  
Yuan-hong Zhong

AbstractAs one of the basic supporting technologies of 5G system, wireless sensor networks technology is facing a new challenge to improve its transmission energy efficiency. This paper considers combining simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technique and routing technique, and applying them to multi-hop clustered wireless sensor networks (MCWSN), where each node can decode information and harvest energy from a received radio-frequency signal. And the relay nodes in MCWSN can utilize the harvest energy to forward data to their next hop nodes according to the routing scheme. First, we formulate an energy-efficient routing problem of MCWSN with SWIPT. Then, a heuristic energy efficient cooperative SWIPT routing algorithm (EECSR) is presented to find a transmission path with the maximum energy efficiency. Specifically, in EECSR, the resource allocation problem in each hop of the path is transformed to some equivalent convex optimization problems, which are resolved via dual decomposition. Moreover, a distributed routing protocol based on EECSR is proposed. As far as we know, this is the first solution that considers energy efficiency optimization based on routing and SWIPT in MCWSN. Simulation results show that our EECSR algorithm has high energy efficiency and good robustness. And our distributed routing protocol has better real-time performance than traditional protocols.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1191-1194
Author(s):  
Mr.SharadA. Bhad. ◽  
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Mr.VikramM. Chavan. ◽  
Mr.NileshS. Nalawade. ◽  
Mr.AmolP. Nagime. ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 312
Author(s):  
Xingxing Xiao ◽  
Haining Huang ◽  
Wei Wang

Due to the limited battery energy of underwater wireless sensor nodes and the difficulty in replacing or recharging the battery underwater, it is of great significance to improve the energy efficiency of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). We propose a novel energy-efficient clustering routing protocol based on data fusion and genetic algorithms (GAs) for UWSNs. In the clustering routing protocol, the cluster head node (CHN) gathers the data from cluster member nodes (CMNs), aggregates the data through an improved back propagation neural network (BPNN), and transmits the aggregated data to a sink node (SN) through a multi-hop scheme. The effective multi-hop transmission path between the CHN and the SN is determined through the enhanced GA, thereby improving transmission efficiency and reducing energy consumption. This paper presents the GA based on a specific encoding scheme, a particular crossover operation, and an enhanced mutation operation. Additionally, the BPNN employed for data fusion is improved by adopting an optimized momentum method, which can reduce energy consumption through the elimination of data redundancy and the decrease of the amount of transferred data. Moreover, we introduce an optimized CHN selecting scheme considering residual energy and positions of nodes. The experiments demonstrate that our proposed protocol outperforms its competitors in terms of the energy expenditure, the network lifespan, and the packet loss rate.


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