Bioinspired Routing Protocols for UWSNs Using Particle Swarm Optimization

The aim of this research therefore is to propose and design bio-inspired routing protocols in UWSNs using PSO. High latency and low bandwidth, coupled with high error rates, make underwater routing a different ball game than routing in normal situations and traditional mediums. The proposed PSO-based protocols also consider factors like power utilization, coverage distance, and priority of data packets to make better routing choices thus helping to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of the UWSNs. The compare analysis of the proposed protocols with the earlier protocols, which are also developed based on AODV and DSR, proves high performance of the PSO based protocols in the energy consumption, data delivery ratio, end to end delay and the network lifetime within all the realistic underwater environments analyzed by the simulations. Such advancement would help to improve the communication system in UWSNs, presenting new approaches for efficient communication in the underwater environment.