Universal Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Vol. 6(4), pp. 291 - 302
DOI: 10.13189/ujeee.2019.060411
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Mobility-aware IMU-based Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for UWSN

Muhammad Tayyab ^1,2,*, Abdul Hanan Bin Abdullah ¹, Mohd. Murtadha Bin Mohamad ^1
1 School of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
² HITEC University, Taxila, Pakistan

ABSTRACT

Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) is one of the promising technologies having a wide range of applications, which includes underwater natural resources exploration, marine life study and underwater pipeline monitoring. Due to the harsh underwater environment, it is very challenging to provide an energy-efficient mobility-aware routing protocol for data collection. Due to the regular movement of the water currents, it becomes difficult to design a routing protocol that manages mobility of sensor nodes without the need of the localization details and with minimum energy utilization. Another issue of the UWSN is how to efficiently detect and avoid void nodes in a void area. The effect of the void node during routing increases energy utilization of the sensor nodes, which leads to decrease in the network lifetime and packet delivery ratio. In this paper, a Mobility-aware IMU-based Energy Efficient Routing (MIER) protocol for UWSN has been proposed to address issues including i) higher transmission overhead due to flooding of localization information exchange ii) and void node occurrence that leads to higher energy utilization and packet loss. The opportunistic data forward approach has been employed for the node communication. Extensive simulation has been carried out and the results show that MIER outperforms existing related research work in terms of end-to-end delay, packet delivery ratio and network lifetime.

KEYWORDS
UWSN Routing, Mobility Management, Void Node Handling, IMU-based Routing

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Muhammad Tayyab , Abdul Hanan Bin Abdullah , Mohd. Murtadha Bin Mohamad , "Mobility-aware IMU-based Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for UWSN," Universal Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 291 - 302, 2019. DOI: 10.13189/ujeee.2019.060411.

(b). APA Format:
Muhammad Tayyab , Abdul Hanan Bin Abdullah , Mohd. Murtadha Bin Mohamad (2019). Mobility-aware IMU-based Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for UWSN. Universal Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 6(4), 291 - 302. DOI: 10.13189/ujeee.2019.060411.