Distributed routing for underwater wireless sensor networks using cuckoo search-ant colony optimization

Abstract

Underwater sensor network is a promising networking technique. Several challenges such as dynamic structure, high rates of energy consumption, long propagation delay, and narrow bandwidth are being faced by underwater sensor networks. The traditional routing approaches never give reliable and expected performance. This paper presents a novel routing algorithm to tackle acoustic transmission problems in underwater. The proposed algorithm is based on cuckoo search and ant colony optimization.