International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 147 - Number 7 |
Year of Publication: 2016 |
Authors: Mojtaba Jamshidi, Abdolreza Andalib, Lida Naseri |
10.5120/ijca2016911186 |
Mojtaba Jamshidi, Abdolreza Andalib, Lida Naseri . A Three-level Propagation Method of Routing Packets Specialized for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks. International Journal of Computer Applications. 147, 7 ( Aug 2016), 29-33. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016911186
Nowadays, underwater sensor networks have many applications, in military and exploration domains, early detection of natural phenomena such as earthquakes and tsunamis, and tracking marine creatures. Early detection of considered events and prompt delivery of necessary data to destination (the sinks) are significant necessities. This paper proposes a simple and efficient packet routing protocol for underwater sensor networks. In the proposed protocol, a three-level propagation mechanism is used for directing packets from source nodes to sink nodes. The proposed protocol is implemented to be assessed, in a series of experiments, in terms of packet delivery rate, average end-to-end delay, and energy consumption and compared with DBR algorithm. Comparison results indicated that the proposed protocol outperforms the base DBR algorithm