Yahya, Aqeb and Islam, Saif Ul and Zahid, Maryam and Ahmed, Ghufran and Raza, Mohsin and Pervaiz, Haris and Yang, Fucheng (2019) Cooperative Routing for Energy Efficient Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Access, 7. pp. 141888-141899. ISSN 2169-3536
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Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) serve as a proficient source to monitor aquatic environment. However, data communications and information routing within these systems offer many challenges. To ensure sufficient network lifetime, energy efficiency in routing protocols serves as a major concern in UWSNs. This paper presents an energy competent cooperative routing scheme known as Region Based Courier-nodes Mobility with Incremental Cooperative (RBCMIC) routing. The proposed scheme uses broadcast nature of wireless nodes and performs an incremental cooperative routing. A rigorous evaluation and verification of the proposed scheme with current state-of-the-art yield improved energy efficiency, resulting in extended network lifetime. The results show that an overall improvement of 20% is witnessed in energy usage, whereas a notable 89% improvement is achieved in end-to-end delay in comparison to DEADS protocol.