Reliable and Delay Aware Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Sami Ullah; Amjad Saleem; Najmul Hassan; Ghulam Muhammad; Jungpil Shin; Qurratul-Ain Minhas; Muhammad Kamran Khan

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3325311

IEEE Access (Jan 2023)

Reliable and Delay Aware Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Sami Ullah,
Amjad Saleem,
Najmul Hassan,
Ghulam Muhammad,
Jungpil Shin,
Qurratul-Ain Minhas,
Muhammad Kamran Khan

Affiliations

Sami Ullah: Department of Electronics, COMSIP Laboratory, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Amjad Saleem: Department of Electronics, COMSIP Laboratory, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Najmul Hassan: Department of Electronics, COMSIP Laboratory, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Ghulam Muhammad: ORCiD; Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Jungpil Shin: ORCiD; School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan
Qurratul-Ain Minhas: ORCiD; Department of Electronics, COMSIP Laboratory, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Kamran Khan: ORCiD; Department of Electronics, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3325311
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11
pp. 116932 – 116943

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The reliability of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) is measured in terms of energy consumption (EC), end-to-end delay(E2E), and packet delivery ratio (PDR). The adverse effects of a channel may cause data loss. Reducing delay up to the possible extent improves the reliability of the network, also increasing the number of nodes in a particular network increases reliability. Besides, increasing the number of nodes improves reliability but also increases power consumption. In order to overcome these shortcomings, the two routing protocols are proposed in this paper, namely the Delay and Reliability Aware Routing (DRAR) protocol and the Cooperative Delay and Reliability Aware Routing (Co-DRAR) protocol for UWSNs. In the DRAR protocol, the network is divided into two equal regions where two sink nodes(SNs) are positioned at the upper region of the network and two SNs are placed at the mid-region of the network. The protocol chooses the relay node based on residual energy (RE), distance, and Bit Error Rate (BER). These parameters protect the data packets from corruption and also provide a stable path (where nodes remain active for longer periods and do not die quickly). The protocol uses a single link and may get worse sometimes while changing channel circumstances. To address this problem, a cooperative routing scheme is added to the DRAR protocol in order to develop its enhanced version known as the Co-DRAR protocol. The protocol works by allowing the destination to receive multiple copies of data packets in order to decide the quality of packets. The proposed protocols DRAR and Co-DRAR perform routing irrespective of the geographical position of sensor nodes conversely to some conventional routing protocols. This is why our proposed protocols perform better than the well-known protocol i.e. Depth base routing (DBR) in terms of EC, E2E, PDR, dead nodes, packet drop ratio, and number of alive nodes.

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ISSN: 2169-3536 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
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