Balanced Energy Efficient Rectangular routing protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Modeling of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) with a goal of maximum network lifetime and throughput with minimum energy consumption is a quite difficult task because of limited battery power and harsh underwater environment. Balanced Energy Efficient Rectangular routing protocol (BEER) covers the maximum network area with the mobility of sinks and collects the data from sensor nodes in their transmission range using direct transmission. Sink movement maximizes the throughput and balanced the energy consumption. Simulation results verify that our scheme performs outstanding in terms of network lifetime, stability period and throughput with minimum energy consumption.