Review on Localization based Routing Protocols for Underwater Wireless Sensor Network

• Published in: International journal of electrical and computer engineering (Malacca, Malacca) Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 536
• Main Authors: Ahmed, Mukhtiar, Salleh, Mazleena, Channa, M.Ibrahim, Rohani, Mohd Foad
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Yogyakarta IAES Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science 01.02.2017
• Subjects: Comparative analysis; Localization; Packets (communication); Protocol (computers); Sensors; Underwater; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks
• DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp536-541
• ISSN: 2088-8708

Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) can enable many scientific, military, safety, commercial and environmental applications. Majority of the network models has been introduced for the deployment of sensor nodes through routing schemes and methodologies along with different algorithms but still the design of routing protocol for underwater environment is a challenging issue due to distinctive characteristics of underwater medium. The majority of the issues are also needed to fulfill the appropriate approach for the underwater medium like limited bandwidth, high bit error rates, propagation delay, and 3D deployment. This paper focuses the comparative analysis of the localization based routing protocols for UWSN. This comparative analysis plays a significant attention to construct a reliable routing protocol, which provides the effectual discovery of the route between the source node and the sink node. In addition this comparative analysis also focuses the data packets forwarding mechanism, the deployment of sensor nodes and location based routing for UWSN in different conditions.