A Study on Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks-Void Area

Abstract

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) consists of the set of wireless sensors in the seabed and it sends information to the nodes in the surface of water. Routing protocols play a vital role in transferring information from the source node to sensor node. There are several challenges in developing routing protocols for UWSNs. The most challenging field is a void communication area. Many researchers proposed different void handling techniques. An enhanced survey of different routing protocols used in the literature for efficient UWSNs have been discussed in this paper. Further, various future implantations to enhance the lifetime, throughput, among others has been identified.