A Data Transmission Strategy Proposed for Subsea Surveillance

Abstract

As a promising way to the certain area surveillance, the application of wireless sensor network on the unknown subsea observation is becoming more significant. After placing the sensor nodes, each sensor node will generate a common communication frame and choose the next hop neighbor node randomly, which could results in redundant energy consumption. In this paper, a data transmission strategy is proposed including routing scheme, frame format and the corresponding topology structure. By considering the transmitting distance, energy consumption and transmission probability, the introduced strategy can reduce the redundant energy consumption, balance the network payload and prolong the subsea observation network lifetime. The simulation results show that the strategy is more efficient than the common one.