Energy performances of a routing protocol based on fuzzy logic approach in an underwater wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Underwater Wireless sensor Networks (UWSNs) is one of the promising topics in wireless communications. High transmission power and lengthy data packet transmission consume a significant amount of energy due to the difficult type of communication in this environment. Several methods are used to solve or reduce this problem. In this article, we are interested to study the impact of using fuzzy logic approach in a routing protocol to evaluate the energy performance of an underwater wireless sensor network. We implement the FLOVP (Fuzzy Logic optimized Vector Protocol) routing protocol which is an improved version of the Vector Based Forwarder VBF routing protocol in aqua-sim simulator for underwater wireless sensor based on NS2 to compare its performance in term of energy consumed with the original VBF routing protocol.