End-to-End Delay and Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

• Main Authors: Ali, T., Jung, L.T., Faye, I.
• Format: Article
• Published: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2014
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84910007008&doi=10.1007%2fs11277-014-1859-z&partnerID=40&md5=6a89fc075db7591a07997c6d8f4b35b3; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/31112/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Providing better communication and maximising the communication performance in a Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) is always challenging due to the volatile characteristics of the underwater environment. Radio signals cannot properly propagate underwater, so there is a need for acoustic technology that can support better data rates and reliable underwater wireless communications. Node mobility, 3-D spaces and horizontal communication links are some critical challenges to the researcher in designing new routing protocols for UWSNs. In this paper, we have proposed a novel routing protocol called Layer by layer Angle-Based Flooding (L2-ABF) to address the issues of continuous node movements, end-to-end delays and energy consumption. In L2-ABF, every node can calculate its flooding angle to forward data packets toward the sinks without using any explicit configuration or location information. The simulation results show that L2-ABF has some advantages over some existing flooding-based techniques and also can easily manage quick routing changes where node movements are frequent. © 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York.