Energy Efficient Random Cooperations for VBF-based Routing in Dense UWSNs

Energy constraint is known as a main challenge in wireless sensor networks. Obviously, energy efficiency is achieved under applying many different policies. Some of these policies directly are related to network layers strategies and the rest of them are effective indirectly and their impacts are seen in cross-layer strategies. In this article, we are going to obtain energy efficiency with using the routing enhancement as a direct policy. We apply a probable mechanism to reduce energy consumption against basic routing protocol. In our scheme, energy efficiency is occurred; however we could hold traffic performance of parameter in suitable condition.

Keywords:

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) , Dense Networks , Vector-Based Forwarding (VBF) , Random Cooperation (RC)