EWR-ICSA: Energy Aware Secured Routing Protocol Based Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks Using Improved Circle Search Algorithm

Abstract

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSN) consists of various sensors and other components that communicate with each other. UWSN has several uses such as seismic monitoring, subsurface navigation and catastrophe prediction and avoidance. This could lead to issues with power consumption, battery life, time synchronization, location, and sensor installation, among others. Security is also an important consideration for UWSN, as it is vulnerable to attacks. In order to reduce power consumption and counter security threats, an innovative Energy-aware Routing protocol (EWR) is proposed that uses an Improved Circle Search Algorithm (ICSA). EWR employs cooperative routing to improve network efficiency and performance. Finally, the performance of the suggested technique is evaluated using simulations run on NS2 software and results are compared to state-of-the-art protocols like IWDT, RE-PBR, and SEECR based on several metrics, including detection accuracy, energy consumption, transmission loss, throughput, and latency. It shows that the suggested method outperforms the alternatives with more efficiency and better performance.