Implementation of Routing Protocol in Underwater Sensor Networks for Energy Harvesting

Abstract

Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) is an emerging subdomain of WSN where lot of monitoring such as oil exploration, pollution control, and seismic activity happens. For these kinds of continuous monitoring application limited battery capacity in the Sensor nodes in UWSN is a major limitation. In general, the sensor nodes in UWSN can be positioned either using localized or non-localized methods. But balancing energy utilization is a challenging issue in both these methods. If UWSN is concerned network parameters such as stability period, route loss, latency at end-to-end, and packet delivery ratio are affected by inefficient energy usage. Several UWSN routing methods proposed in the past are based on cooperation that lacks an energy harvesting method at transfer nodes. So, this research proposes Analytical Approach towards Reliability with Cooperation for UWSNs Energy Harvesting (ARCUNEH). ARCUNEH is an extension of already proposed ARCUN. The proposed approach picks relay nodes from one of its neighboring nodes depending on the collected vitality level of the sensor node. In order to improve the satiability and lifetime of the sensor nodes at UWSN, ARCUNEH method integrates piezoelectrical energy harvesting at sensor nodes. The proposed method is simulated for evaluating its correctness in which ARCUNEH is compare with ARCUN and RACE with respect to the network parameters such as stability period, route loss, packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay and throughput. Our simulation study shows that ARCUNEH outperforms ARCUN and RACE. So ARCUNEH is can be adopted for harvesting energy in sensor nodes in UWSN.