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A Systematic Review Study on Research Challenges, Opportunities, Threats and Limitations in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs)

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Wireless Sensor Networks have high stature in underwater observation, exploration and monitoring applications. Qualitative and effective research has been carried out in UWSNs from last few decades. Ambition behind this research systematic review study is to provide a comprehensive survey on latest research in underwater wireless sensor networks. Herein we provide a brief discussion on major research challenges and development in UWSNs. We provide a periodical review on UWSNs issues and potential challenges highlighted in previous studies. In this paper, we investigate research methods to gain attention of research fraternity towards future technologies and challenges of UWSNs on the basis of existing approaches. Thus it is our foremost requirement to provide state-of-art analysis of existing UWSNs.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI), Islamabad, Pakistan

    Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan

  2. North China Electric Power University, Beijing, China

    Sardar Shan Ali Naqvi

  3. South China University of Technology, Guangzho, China

    Farhad Banoori

  4. Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Muhammad Irbaz Siddique

  5. Northwestern Polytechnic University, Fremont, USA

    Muhammad Muntazir Mehdi

  6. Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

    Frederick Nii Ofie Bruce

  7. Beihang University, Beijing, China

    Alireza Mazinani

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Mohsan, S.A.H. et al. (2021). A Systematic Review Study on Research Challenges, Opportunities, Threats and Limitations in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs). In: Tavana, M., Nedjah, N., Alhajj, R. (eds) Emerging Trends in Intelligent and Interactive Systems and Applications. IISA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1304. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63784-2_97

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