An Enhanced Energy Balanced Data Transmission Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
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COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
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Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan
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King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
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Lulea University of Technology, Luleå 971 87, Sweden
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Academic Editor: Yu Wang
Sensors 2016, 16(4), 487; https://doi.org/10.3390/s16040487
Received: 9 February 2016
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Revised: 21 March 2016
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Accepted: 30 March 2016
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Published: 7 April 2016
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Algorithms for Mobile Sensing: from Wireless Sensor Networks to Mobile Crowd Sensing)
This paper presents two new energy balanced routing protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs); Efficient and Balanced Energy consumption Technique (EBET) and Enhanced EBET (EEBET). The first proposed protocol avoids direct transmission over long distance to save sufficient amount of energy consumed in the routing process. The second protocol overcomes the deficiencies in both Balanced Transmission Mechanism (BTM) and EBET techniques. EBET selects relay node on the basis of optimal distance threshold which leads to network lifetime prolongation. The initial energy of each sensor node is divided into energy levels for balanced energy consumption. Selection of high energy level node within transmission range avoids long distance direct data transmission. The EEBET incorporates depth threshold to minimize the number of hops between source node and sink while eradicating backward data transmissions. The EBET technique balances energy consumption within successive ring sectors, while, EEBET balances energy consumption of the entire network. In EEBET, optimum number of energy levels are also calculated to further enhance the network lifetime. Effectiveness of the proposed schemes is validated through simulations where these are compared with two existing routing protocols in terms of network lifetime, transmission loss, and throughput. The simulations are conducted under different network radii and varied number of nodes.
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Keywords:
underwater acoustic sensor networks; routing protocol; network lifetime; energy consumption; throughput
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Javaid, N.; Shah, M.; Ahmad, A.; Imran, M.; Khan, M.I.; Vasilakos, A.V. An Enhanced Energy Balanced Data Transmission Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks. Sensors 2016, 16, 487. https://doi.org/10.3390/s16040487
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Javaid N, Shah M, Ahmad A, Imran M, Khan MI, Vasilakos AV. An Enhanced Energy Balanced Data Transmission Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks. Sensors. 2016; 16(4):487. https://doi.org/10.3390/s16040487
Chicago/Turabian StyleJavaid, Nadeem, Mehreen Shah, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Majid I. Khan, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. 2016. "An Enhanced Energy Balanced Data Transmission Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks" Sensors 16, no. 4: 487. https://doi.org/10.3390/s16040487
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