11th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools

Research Article

Adaptive Holding time and Depth-Based Routing for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.5-12-2017.2274342,
        author={Mohsin  Jafri},
        title={Adaptive Holding time and Depth-Based Routing for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks},
        proceedings={11th EAI International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={VALUETOOLS},
        year={2018},
        month={8},
        keywords={underwater sensor networks routing protocols depth-based routing},
        doi={10.4108/eai.5-12-2017.2274342}
    }
    
  • Mohsin Jafri
    Year: 2018
    Adaptive Holding time and Depth-Based Routing for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks
    VALUETOOLS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.5-12-2017.2274342
Mohsin Jafri1,*
  • 1: DAIS, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy
*Contact email: mohsin.jafri@unive.it

Abstract

In Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs), traditional enhancements of Depth-Based Routing (DBR) scheme rely either on increasing the network overhead or on the adoption of offline localization schemes to improve the network performance in terms of energy consumption, end-to-end delay or network throughput. Unfortunately, localization based techniques are very hard to implement in practice. In this work we show some preliminary results about the performance of a routing scheme called Adaptive Holding time and Depth-based routing (AHD) that we propose to dynamically adapt DBR configuration parameters. Specifically, we show a set of simulation experiments that suggest that networks implementing AHD show a reduced energy consumption with respect to those implementing the standard version of DBR. Simulations are performed by using our simulation library [4] of DBR [7] developed for the simulator AquaSim-Next Generation (NG) underwater simulator, which is based on Network Simulator-3 (NS-3) [6]. The characteristics of this library (detailed representation of cross-layer communications and operation modes of the modems) allows us an accurate prediction of the performance improvement of AHD with respect to standard DBR.