An Overview of Energy Efficient Routing Protocols for Acoustic Sensor Network

Underwater acoustic network is one of the rapidly
growing areas of research and finds different applications for
monitoring and collecting various data for environmental studies. The
communication among dynamic nodes and high error probability in
an acoustic medium forced to maximize energy consumption in
Underwater Sensor Networks (USN) than in traditional sensor
networks. Developing energy-efficient routing protocol is the
fundamental and a curb challenge because all the sensor nodes are
powered by batteries, and they cannot be easily replaced in UWSNs.
This paper surveys the various recent routing techniques that mainly
focus on energy efficiency.

• V. P. Dhivya
• R. Arthi

• Acoustic channels
• Energy efficiency
• Routing in sensor networks
• Underwater Sensor Network.

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