PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AD HOC PROTOCOLS FOR UNDERWATER NETWORKS

Underwater networking is a recently evolving technology which promises to provide the required infrastructure that will further cooperation amongst Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs). Underwater networks face extreme challenges of low bandwidth, high latency, and minimal energy resources. AUSI team has made its initial efforts to address the issues of underwater networks and as a result developed two protocols namely, Controlled Flooding for Small Networks (COFSNET) and Autonomous Undersea Systems Network (AUSNET) [1]. Both the protocols are tailored versions of existing protocols developed for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) [2]. The goal of this study is to analyze the performance and effectiveness of these protocols in various network topology scenarios and with different types of traffic load.