Channel Aware Multi-Layered Routing Protocol for Under Water Wireless Sensor Networks

The definition and performance evaluation of a new multi-layered routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks is discovered in the paper. The solution, Channel aware multi-layered routing protocol (CAM-RP), reveals the goodness factor in the super nodes which represent an estimate of the quality of channel and the best reachable neighbor in a route to sink. CAM-RP also reduces transmission delay and packet error rate. The relay selection of the node depends on the high goodness ratio which helps the super node to determine the nodes which have energy efficiency and link reliability in the channel. CAM-RP works in two phases namely layering phase and Data forwarding phase. During layering phase, different layers are formed by the super nodes. In data forwarding phase, data packets are forwarded based on these layers. The performance of the CAM-RP is compared with the existing Channel aware routing protocol (CARP) under the metrics of Packet delivery ratio, route length, energy consumption, throughput, and jitter. The implementation is done using the MATLAB simulation tool and the results are plotted. The experimental results show that the newly proposed CAM-RP yields better results comparing with the CARP algorithm in case of all parameters.