Fuzz_OSR: Fuzzy based Optimal Secured Route selection model in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks for efficient data transmission

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) investigate the aquatic environment to provide different underwater surveillance applications. The distinctive characteristics of UWSN, however, also provide additional difficulties, including as constrained bandwidth, significant propagation delays, mobile node behavior, and high error rates. The vulnerability of UWSNs to assaults is further exacerbated by their deployment in unsupervised environments. Due to these difficulties, security solutions for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are not practicable for use with UWSN. Through hacked sensor nodes, adversaries conduct fake report injection attacks and false vote injection assaults. False reports may be found and filtered out throughout the multi-hop forwarding process using a number of filtering techniques. The majority of these approaches, however, assume a standard underpinning data routing protocol that does not take into account the attack status or energy loss along the route. In terms of resistance to compromised node protection, each architecture offers almost equal resilience. The features of each design's energy usage, nevertheless, vary. We provide a fuzzy-based Optimal Secured Route (Fuzz_OSR) selection approach to save energy and prevent the formation of preferred paths. In order to prevent exploited intermediate filtering nodes getting involved in the verification process, new authentication keys are generated on a regular basis and supplied to the filtering nodes.