AUV-Based Efficient Data Collection Scheme for Underwater Linear Sensor Networks

The research on underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) has grown considerably in recent years where the main focus remains to develop a reliable communication protocol overcome its challenges between various sensing devices. purpose of UWSNs is provide low cost and an unmanned data collection system for range applications such as offshore exploration, pollution monitoring, oil gas pipeline surveillance, etc. One common types linear network (LSN), which speciall targets monitoring pipelines. Under this application, most previously proposed works, are deployed without considering heterogeneity capacity nodes. This negligence leads problem inefficient delivery from nodes surface sinks. In addition, existing path planning algorithms do not consider coverage heterogeneous