UWSN Survey: Challenges and Application issues

Abstract

In the last few years, research has increased enormously in the field of the underwater domain. It is mainly due to the vast unexplored area of earth covered by river, sea water and needs exploration in multiple dimensions, including offshore and underwater networking environments. Compared to the terrestrial domain, there are many challenges due to seawater’s inherent properties, including viscosity, pressure, turbidity, etc. These all require effective solutions for different useful applications like the study of marine life, sea resources exploration, naval surveillance, etc. in terms of effective communication and routing of data from one end to another, deployment and mobility of nodes, etc. This paper has presented a literature review, comparative study, and feasible tools which can be useful in proving solutions for underwater sensor networking issues.