Dynamic Cluster Based Routing for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

• Main Authors: Muhammad, Ayaz, Azween, Abdullah
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/1023/1/DCB_Routing_2.pdf; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/1023/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

During the last couple of decades Underwater Wireless Sensor etworks (UWS) attracting more and more attention for ocean monitoring systems. Due to adverse environment, UWS face many problems like bandwidth limitations, high error probability, node movements and 3-dimensional space, and with such challenges, we need a robust and scalable architecture for providing a self configuring network of distributed nodes. In order to handle the problem of large propagation delays and unreliable link quality, many authors proposed multi-hop data delivery routing schemes. But, such multi-hop routing protocols drain more energy of the nodes near the sink. In this paper, we proposed a “Temporary Cluster Based Routing” protocol, which not only make use of equal energy consumption for all the nodes throughout the network but also it helps to save energy, as it prefer to send the sensed data over short distances. Moreover, it does not require any location information of sensor nodes and only a small number of nodes are involved during the end to end routing process. This makes it suitable not only for stationary and mobile networks but for the hybrid networks as well.