Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) provide a new opportunities to examine and predict the activities of aquatic environments. Some applications such as target tracking , disaster prevention etc where sensed data is worthless without any location information. Localization is the process of estimating the location of each node in a sensor network. In underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) de...

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are the enabling technology for various underwater applications, and the interest in UWSNs is growing. Applications of underwater sensing range from oil industry to aquaculture, and include instrument monitoring, pollution control, climate recording, prediction of natural disturbances, search and survey missions. Location information is important for ...

Ubiquitous wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have become a critical technology for enabling smart cities and other ubiquitous monitoring applications. Their deployment, however, can be seriously hampered by the spectrum available to the sheer number of sensors for communication. To support the communication needs of UWSNs without requiring more spectrum resources, the power-domain non-orthogonal...

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have become a new hot research area. However, due to the work dynamics and harsh ocean environment, how to obtain an UWSN with the best systematic performance while deploying as few sensor nodes as possible and setting up self-adaptive networking is an urgent problem that needs to be solved. Consequently, sensor deployment, networking, and performance...

Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) is a new network paradigm that is being proposed to explore, monitor and protect the oceans. Some of the Underwater Sensor Nodes applications include oceanographic data collection, pollution monitoring, offshore exploration, disaster prevention, assisted navigation and tactical surveillance applications. The topology and model of communication play cruc...

In Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs), localization is one of most important technologies since it plays a critical role in many applications. Motivated by widespread adoption of localization, in this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of localization algorithms. First, we classify localization algorithms into three categories based on sensor nodes' mobility: stationary localizat...

The main goal of data aggregation technique is to gather data in energy manner for a long-term network monitoring. In data aggregation technique, the role of an aggregator is to collect sensed data from surrounding environment and transmit the collected data to base station. One part of data aggregation process is applying similarity function in order to minimize redundancy from the raw data an...

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) has gained attention to researcher due to their wide range of applications. However, due to their power constrains and limitations, an energy efficient MAC protocol is required. Existing MAC protocols for terrestrial WSNs are not sufficient to solve the issues in UWSNs. Therefore, to design a new MAC protocol for UWSNs it is required to study the fact...

Efficient routing protocols for data packet delivery are crucial to underwater sensor networks (UWSNs). However, communication in UWSNs is a challenging task because of the characteristics of the acoustic channel. Network coding is a promising technique for efficient data packet delivery thanks to the broadcast nature of acoustic channels and the relatively high computation capabilities of the ...

Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) can enable a broad range of applications such as resource monitoring, disaster prevention, and navigation-assisted. It is especially relevant for sensor nodes location in UWSNs. Global Positioning System (GPS) is not suitable for using in UWSNs because of the underwater propagation problems. Hence some localization algorithms based on the precise time synchron...