Towards Efficient Sink Mobility in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Aqeb Yahya, Saif Ul Islam, Adnan Akhunzada (), Ghufran Ahmed, Shahaboddin Shamshirband and Jaime Lloret
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Aqeb Yahya: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan
Saif Ul Islam: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan
Ghufran Ahmed: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan
Shahaboddin Shamshirband: Department for Management of Science and Technology Development, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Jaime Lloret: Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Shahab S Band

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 6, 1-12

Abstract: The unique characteristics of underwater environment such as long propagation delay, limited bandwidth, energy-constraint and non-uniform topology are big challenges in designing a routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). In this paper, a novel routing scheme is proposed through which two mobile sinks are used for efficient collection of sensed data packets. Moreover, a new metric “Mobile Sink Utility Ratio (MUR)” is also introduced that helps in measuring the usage of mobile sink in the collection of data packets. The proposed scheme is rigorously evaluated and compared with current state-of-the-art routing protocols. The simulation of the proposed scheme shows promising results in terms of throughput, network lifetime, packet drop ratio and MUR.

Keywords: underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs); energy efficiency; energy and performance aware routing; mobile sink; mobile sink utility ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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