TY - GEN
T1 - EEDBR
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Technology, AST 2011
AU - Wahid, Abdul
AU - Lee, Sungwon
AU - Jeong, Hong Jong
AU - Kim, Dongkyun
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Recently, Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have attracted much research attention from both academia and industry, in order to explore the vast underwater environment. However, designing network protocols is challenging in UWSNs since UWSNs have peculiar characteristics of large propagation delay, high error rate, low bandwidth and limited energy. In UWSNs, improving the energy efficiency is one of the most important issues since the replacement of the batteries of such nodes is very expensive due to harsh underwater environment. Hence, in this paper, we propose an energy efficient routing protocol, named EEDBR (Energy-Efficient Depth Based Routing protocol) for UWSNs. Our proposed protocol utilizes the depth of the sensor nodes for forwarding the data packets. Furthermore, the residual energy of the sensor nodes is also taken into account in order to improve the network life-time. Based on the comprehensive simulation using NS2, we observe that our proposed routing protocol contributes to the performance improvements in terms of the network lifetime, energy consumption and end-to-end delay.
AB - Recently, Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have attracted much research attention from both academia and industry, in order to explore the vast underwater environment. However, designing network protocols is challenging in UWSNs since UWSNs have peculiar characteristics of large propagation delay, high error rate, low bandwidth and limited energy. In UWSNs, improving the energy efficiency is one of the most important issues since the replacement of the batteries of such nodes is very expensive due to harsh underwater environment. Hence, in this paper, we propose an energy efficient routing protocol, named EEDBR (Energy-Efficient Depth Based Routing protocol) for UWSNs. Our proposed protocol utilizes the depth of the sensor nodes for forwarding the data packets. Furthermore, the residual energy of the sensor nodes is also taken into account in order to improve the network life-time. Based on the comprehensive simulation using NS2, we observe that our proposed routing protocol contributes to the performance improvements in terms of the network lifetime, energy consumption and end-to-end delay.
KW - network life-time
KW - residual energy
KW - routing
KW - Underwater wireless sensor networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80053556655&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-24267-0_27
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-24267-0_27
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80053556655
SN - 9783642242663
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 223
EP - 234
BT - Advanced Computer Science and Information Technology - Third International Conference, AST 2011, Proceedings
Y2 - 27 September 2011 through 29 September 2011
ER -