title: DEADS: Depth and Energy Aware Dominating Set Based Algorithm for Cooperative Routing along with Sink Mobility in Underwater WSNs.
abstract: Performance enhancement of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) in terms of throughput maximization, energy conservation and Bit Error Rate (BER) minimization is a potential research area. However, limited available bandwidth, high propagation delay, highly dynamic network topology, and high error probability leads to performance degradation in these networks. In this regard, many cooperative communication protocols have been developed that either investigate the physical layer or the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer, however, the network layer is still unexplored. More specifically, cooperative routing has not yet been jointly considered with sink mobility. Therefore, this paper aims to enhance the network reliability and efficiency via dominating set based cooperative routing and sink mobility. The proposed work is validated via simulations which show relatively improved performance of our proposed work in terms the selected performance metrics.
authors.affiliation: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. amara_t7@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Amara
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Umar
authors.affiliation: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. nadeemjavaidqau@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Nadeem
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Javaid
authors.affiliation: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. ashfaqcomsats@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ashfaq
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ahmad
authors.affiliation: Internetworking Program, FE, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3J 4R2, Canada. zahoor.khan@dal.ca.
authors.forename: Zahoor Ali
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: University of Alberta, AB T6G 2J8, Canada. umar.qasim@ualberta.ca.
authors.forename: Umar
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Qasim
authors.affiliation: College of Applied Medical Sciences, Department of Biomedical Technology, King Saud University, Riyadh 11633, Saudi Arabia. nabil@ksu.edu.sa.
authors.forename: Nabil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Alrajeh
authors.affiliation: COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan. amir.hayat@comsats.edu.pk.
authors.forename: Amir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hayat
keywords: cooperative routing; depth threshold; dominating set; sink mobility; underwater wireless sensor networks