An efficient autonomous underwater vehicle based energy exhaustion reduction technique in underwater wireless sensor network

Abstract

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have become apopular research area to explore underwater environments and resources. It isa fact that a huge amount of unexploited resources can be obtained inunderwater and it is difficult for a human to identify its related information inunderwater. The popularity of UWSN gets increased every day due to itsimportant role in various applications that monitors underwater and offshoresearches. A routing protocol defines how router distributes informationamong each other which enables them to choose best routes between any twonodes in a network.The design of communication protocols is limited due to the use ofacoustic signals in UWSNand#8223;s physical medium for communications. Thelocalization of sensor nodes is the basic for the routing protocol. newline