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The underwater wireless sensor networks is a rapidly growing area of research as it monitors and collects data for environmental studies of seismic monitoring, flocks of underwater robots, equipment monitoring and control, pollution monitoring applications. The main purpose is to create a new set of routing protocols optimized various factors from the major differences in the underwater wireless sensor network and terrestrial network. Energy efficiency plays an important role in underwater wireless communication as underwater sensor nodes are powered by batteries which are difficult to replace or charge once the node is deployed. This paper surveys various routing techniques. Modern research trends focus to improve the performance on various issues like propagation delay, mobility, limited link capacity and limited battery power on the sea ground and sea surface.
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Sahana, S., Singh, K., Kumar, R., Das, S. (2018). A Review of Underwater Wireless Sensor Network Routing Protocols and Challenges. In: Lobiyal, D., Mansotra, V., Singh, U. (eds) Next-Generation Networks. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 638. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6005-2_51
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