A SURVIVAL STUDY ON FLOODING BASED ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR UNDERWATER WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (UWSNs)

Authors

A.Rehash Rushmi Pavitra, Assistant Professor
Sri Sairam Engineering College, Chennai, India.
L.Karthika, Assistant Professor, K.Rupiya, Assistant Professor
Gojan School of Business and Technology, Chennai, India.
P.Uma Maheswari, Assistant Professor
Anna University Regional Campus, Madurai, India.
S.Keerthana, Assistant Professor
Sri Sairam Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.

Abstract

Recent exploration in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) has earned the radical consideration of researchers in both academic and industries for distinct number of undiscovered applications encompass of disaster and earthquake forecasting, quality of water and environment monitoring, emission and mine detection, military surveillance weather predication and underwater navigation. On the other side, the underwater medium is identical with a number of limitations and constraints such as limited bandwidth, long propagation delay, high interference and noise, harsh environment, insufficient underwater channels and limited battery power of the sensor nodes. To overcome this, the development of routing protocols for UWSNs is one of the assuring solutions to control with the above mentioned challenges. In addition, this paper presents a survey of the Flooding based routing protocols for UWSNs which are reliable methodology to deliver packets in underwater environment for long distance communication. Hence, these protocols potentially associate the sensor nodes done with forwarding procedure. Finally, wide range of parameters and future research directions are highlighted for further investigation.