Underwater sensor networks: ‘Comparative analysis on applications, deployment and routing techniques’

Abstract

In today's scenario, underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) has raised as a most famous research areas for the researchers due to its advancement in the real world. In UWSNs, the sensor nodes sense the environment, and then this sensed information is conveyed to one of the sink node and finally to the base station for processing. It is a known fact that nearly about 70% of the total earth surface is filled with the water. It is difficult for the humans to get the valuable information from the seabed. Major applications of UWSN are marine surveillance, sea monitoring, deep sea archaeology, oil monitoring etc. Major goal of this work is to provide the broad survey of underwater sensor networks with its application, deployment techniques and routing algorithms. This study also provides a comparative analysis of the deployment techniques and routing algorithms that will aid the researchers to find the research gaps in the deployment and routing techniques. Moreover, some of the UWSN applications also reviewed, which provides varied and valuable information about the UWSN approach. This study presents an overview about the conventional technologies of UWSN and its major focus is to present the significant research approaches towards the UWSNs’ applications, deployment techniques, and routing process.