Comparative Analysis of Routing Protocols for UnderWater Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The communication range of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is limited, and the nodes are equipped with limited power battery whose replacement is expensive due to underwater harsh environment. Moreover, the networks including small number of nodes have communication problems for long ranges. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of three location-based protocols (namely, VBF, HH-VBF, and VBVA) for underwater wireless sensor networks routing for dynamic network topology. Our comparison includes energy consumption, end-to-end delay, and packet delivery ratio.