Energy Efficient Underwater Sensor Networks Routing Protocol utilizing Advanced Particle Swarm Optimization

The challenges of Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have been low bandwidth, high propagation delay, & more energy consumption where have been concerning along routing protocol design for underwater data communication process. Under this paper, novel opportunistic routing protocol proposed to reliable data forwarding under UW-ASNs along aim of improving the Quality of Service (QoS) performance & energy efficiency. The problem of energy-efficient data forwarding has been solved through utilizing the optimum opportunistic route construction algorithm utilizing the Advanced Particle Swarm Optimization (APSO) utilizing the local properties of sensor nodes. The proposed protocol called like Opportunistic Underwater Routing utilizing APSO (OUR-APSO). The APSO based next forwarding relay node selected utilizing the two properties such like Energy Consumption Ratio (ECR) & Packet Delivery Probability (PDP) of neighboring relay nodes. Every neighboring node evaluated based on the outcome of ECR & PDR at the current time & next relay along higher probability value through considering the ECR & PDP has been selected like next forwarder node. The experimental results presented justify the effectiveness of proposed opportunistic routing protocol for UWSNs compared to the existing solutions under terms of energy efficiency, packet delivery ratio (PDR), & communication delay.