Performance Evaluation of a Tree-Based Routing Protocol over a 3D Grid for UWSNs

Fatema Al Bahanta, Nasser Alzeidi, Khaled Day, Abderezak Touzene, Hussein Al-Maqbali

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Abstract

Recently, a Tree-Based Routing (TBR) protocol for UWSNs has been proposed. It constructs shortest-path trees in a virtual 3D grid topology and uses them to obtain routing paths between sensor nodes and sink nodes. It has been claimed that due to the availability of these pre-constructed shortest-path trees, TBR is expected to outperform other protocols. In this work we investigate the validity of this claim by implementing TBR, evaluating its performance and comparing it to the well-known Vector-Based Forwarding (VBF) protocol by simulation. The delivery ratio and communication delay were measured under varying network density, node mobility and traffic load conditions. The obtained results show that TBR does outperform VBF (twice or more better) in terms of these measures. It was also observed from the simulation results that TBR performs better under low node mobility conditions. TBR consumes however more energy than VBF.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICUFN 2019 - 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages426-431
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728113395
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2019
Event11th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2019 - Zagreb, Croatia
Duration: Jul 2 2019Jul 5 2019

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN
Volume2019-July
ISSN (Print)2165-8528
ISSN (Electronic)2165-8536

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, ICUFN 2019
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityZagreb
Period7/2/197/5/19

Keywords

  • performance evaluation
  • routing protocol
  • simulation
  • underwater wireless sensor networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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