A distance-based probabilistic routing for underwater acoustic sensor networks Online publication date: Thu, 16-Oct-2014
by Song Zhang; Deshi Li
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Vol. 6, No. 6, 2013
Abstract: Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) have received significant attention recently. The important characteristic of an underwater acoustic sensor network is that, most underwater acoustic sensor nodes have a certain beam width and a three-dimensional direction, which are ignored by the existing underwater routing protocols. This characteristic will lead to the sharp decline of the existing protocol performance. We develop a Distance-Based Probabilistic Routing (DBPR) protocol to tackle this problem in UASNs. DBPR uses forward probability to determine whether to forward the data packet. Forwarding probability is influenced by the distance and the beam width of the node. A key advantage of our protocol is that it can achieve relatively high packet delivery rate and ensure reasonable energy consumption when taken into account the above characteristic. The proposed protocol is compared with a representative routing protocol for UASNs. The simulation results verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed work.
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:
Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.
If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com
Our Blog 
Follow us on Twitter 
Visit us on Facebook