COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NON CO OPERATIVE AND CO OPERATIVE ROUTING PROTOCOLS IN UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS

Abstract

Underwater communication networks (UWCNs) include sensors and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that interact to perform specific applications such as underwater monitoring. Some of the applications like, Mission critical applications require reliability and network efficiency in Underwater Communication Networks, so for coordination and data forwarding between sensor nodes cooperative communication routing protocols are developed that enhances network efficiency. Cooperation is added to the existing non-cooperative routing protocol at network layer that perform better in terms of reliability and throughput. This paper focuses on evaluation of non co operative routing protocols DBR (Depth Based Routing Protocol), EEDBR (Energy Efficient Depth Based Routing Protocol) and cooperative routing protocols Co DBR, Co EEDBR in terms of packet delivery ratio, end to end delay, throughput and energy consumption. NS2 simulator judge the performance of these protocols. Simulation results show that Cooperative Routing Protocols outperforms than Non Cooperative Routing Protocols.