A Comparative Study of Clustering Routing Protocols in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors

  • Poonam, Vikas Siwach, Harkesh Sehrawat

Abstract

Underwater wireless sensor networks have acquired a lot of consideration of research. About two third part of our earth is occupied by water. Underwater wireless networks are used for exploration of resources, collection of data under the water, detection of flood, strategic surveillance systems, and unmanned underwater automobiles. In underwater wireless networks, nodes are there which are deployed under the water and on the surface. Limited energy of sensor nodes has an important consequence on underwater sensor network. Reliability and energy consumption are important issues in underwater sensor networks.

The main motive in underwater sensor networks is to activate the nodes having inadequate battery power for a long time. It has been a crucial issue to design an energy efficient technique for reduction of energy consumption of underwater sensor network. Clustering method is used to save energy in UWSN. In clustering technique whole network is divided into various subparts called clusters, where each cluster consists of one controller node called as cluster head node. LEACH (Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy) is the basic hierarchical clustering routing protocol used for conservation of energy. LEACH protocol is self-organizing hierarchical clustering routing protocol that allots energy evenly on all sensor nodes in sensor network. Energy consumption is avoided using cluster head and data aggregation method.

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Published

2022-07-30