6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Adaptive Routing in Underwater Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158310,
        author={Zheng Guo and Zheng Peng and Bing Wang and Jun-Hong Cui and Jie Wu},
        title={Adaptive Routing in Underwater Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks},
        proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2012},
        month={3},
        keywords={underwater sensor networks delay/disruption networks adpative routing},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158310}
    }
    
  • Zheng Guo
    Zheng Peng
    Bing Wang
    Jun-Hong Cui
    Jie Wu
    Year: 2012
    Adaptive Routing in Underwater Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158310
Zheng Guo1,*, Zheng Peng1, Bing Wang1, Jun-Hong Cui1, Jie Wu2
  • 1: University of Connecticut
  • 2: Temple University
*Contact email: guozheng@engr.uconn.edu

Abstract

Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN) has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry. Different from terrestrial sensor nodes, underwater sensor nodes are usually mobile, much bigger, more energy-consuming, harder to recharge and suffer from more severe environmental conditions. Thus, an UWSN can be easily partitioned and no persistent routes from a source to a destination are available. Therefore, an UWSN can be viewed as a Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN). Moreover, an UWSN is always supposed to work for a long time to accomplish multiple tasks with various application requirements, such as delay and delivery ratio. Although many routing protocols have been proposed for DTNs, they are not suitable for UWSNs and cannot handle various application requirements. In this paper, we propose redundancy based adaptive routing (RBAR) for underwater DTNs. Through analysis and simulation, we demonstrate RBAR can achieve the best energy efficiency while satisfying different delay requirements of various packets by explicitly controlling the replication process.