Comparative Performance Evaluation of Routing Protocols in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks have wide application use cases such as ocean monitoring, underwater exploration, disaster management, and aquatic monitoring. It is essential to review the routing protocol which provides better performance with less energy consumption. These energy-efficient routing protocols are important for achieving maximum network lifetime, minimum delay, and high data throughput. In this paper, we investigate the experiment comparison of three routing protocols DbHRP, EBbHR, and CHbHBG on some proxy performance indicators like network lifetime, latency, PDR, Energy consumption and so on. The findings indicate that CHbHBG is more efficient than other protocols in all aspects like energy consumption, PDR, path creation time, and latency, which makes it suitable for UWSN based on the application requirement.