Abstract The Underwater Internet of Things (UIoT) has emerged as one the prominent technologies in development future ocean monitoring systems, where mobile edge elements (such autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)) provide a promising method for data collection from sensor nodes. However, an important part UIoT, wireless networks (UWSNs) are severely affected by dynamic environment. For instan...

Several data forwarding and clustering techniques have been proposed to improve Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) performance, but void communications, packet collisions, energy efficiency remain unresolved. We introduce a novel routing solution for QoS-efficient transmission from the underwater sensor node surface sink using Swarm Intelligence (SI). The protocol Energy Optimization R...

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are promising, emerging technologies for the applications in oceanic research. UWSN contains high number of nodes and autonomous underwater vehicles that deployed to perform data transmission sea. In networks, sensors placed buoyant which highly vulnerable selfish behavioural attack. this paper, major challenges finding secure optimal route navigation...

The issue of limited energy resources is crucial for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) because these operate in remote and harsh environments where access to power sources limited. Overcoming the constraints necessary ensure long-term functionality sustainability UWSN, enabling continuous data collection communication various applications such as environmental monitoring surveillance....

Energy-efficient management and highly reliable communication transmission mechanisms are major issues in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) due to the limited battery power of UWSN nodes within an harsh underwater environment. In this paper, we integrate three main techniques that have been used for managing Transmission Power-based Sparsity-conscious Energy-Efficient Clustering (CTP-S...

Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) are an emerging field in the research area as they have potential applications starting from pollution monitoring to defense and ocean exploration. Ocean is of great importance marine scientific research. However, battery-operated devices utilized such systems limited power maintenance difficult. So, used underwater suffer many challenges energy issues. Apart ...

The energy problem has become one of the critical factors limiting development underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs), and cooperative multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) technology shown advantages in saving. However, design energy-efficient MIMO techniques does not consider actual environment, such as distribution nodes. Underwater magnetic induction (MI)-assisted acoustic WSNs a promi...

Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN) is gaining popularity among researchers due to its peculiar features. But there are so many challenges in the design of UWSN system, and these quite unsustainable dynamic nature water waves. Perhaps most tedious challenge for UWSNs how transfer data at destination with a minimal energy rate. It can be accomplished by exploiting geographic opportunistic routing s...

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks are significantly different from terrestrial sensor networks due to peculiar characteristics of low bandwidth, high latency, limited energy, node float mobility and high error probability. These features bring many challenges to the network protocol design of UWSNs. Several routing protocols have been developed in recent years for these networks. One of the m...

In this paper, three opportunistic pressure based routing techniques for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are proposed. The first one is the cooperative opportunistic pressure based routing protocol (Co-Hydrocast), second technique is the improved Hydrocast (improved-Hydrocast), and third one is the cooperative improved Hydrocast (Co-improved Hydrocast). In order to minimize lengthy ...