Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review of Recent Issues and Challenges

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) contain several components such as vehicles and sensors that are deployed in a specific acoustic area to perform collaborative monitoring and data collection tasks. These networks are used interactively between different nodes and ground-based stations. Presently, UWSNs face issues and challenges regarding limited bandwidth, high propagation delay, 3D topology, media access control, routing, resource utilization, and power constraints. In the last few decades, research community provided different methodologies to overcome these issues and challenges; however, some of them are still open for research due to variable characteristics of underwater environment. In this paper, a survey of UWSN regarding underwater communication channel, environmental factors, localization, media access control, routing protocols, and effect of packet size on communication is conducted. We compared presently available methodologies and discussed their pros and cons to highlight new directions of research for further improvement in underwater sensor networks.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

• Publication date

  2019-01-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1155/2019/6470359
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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