An Energy Efficient and Balanced Energy Consumption Cluster Based Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

In Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) nodes are equipped with limited battery power and battery replacement is expensive due to underwater harsh environment. Therefore, we propose EBECRP an energy Efficient and Balanced Energy consumption Cluster based Routing Protocol for UWSNs. In depth base routing protocols nodes near the sink (low depth nodes) die in no time because of high load. We avoid depth base routing in our proposed scheme and use mobile sinks to balance load on all nodes. We also use the concept of clustering to reduce multi hoping which results in more energy consumption. The selected Cluster Heads (CHs) collect data from one hope neighbor nodes to reduce global communication into locally compressed communication. Simulation results show that EBECRP achieves maximum stability period and network life time.