Performance and Improvement Analysis of the Underwater WSN Using a Diverse Routing Protocol Approach

Table 1

Comparison of all routing protocols for 60 nodes.

Parameters	Protocol
	OLSR			DSR			AODV			LAR1			DYMO			ZRP			STAR-LORA			STAR-ORA			Fisheye			Bellman–Ford
	CBR	FTP	VBR	CBR	FTP	VBR	CBR	FTP	VBR	CBR	FTP	VBR	CBR	FTP	VBR	CBR	FTP	VBR	CBR	FTP	VBR	CBR	FTP	VBR	CBR	FTP	VBR	CBR	FTP	VBR
Average transmission delay (µsec)	28	49	39	23	42	36	18	27	35	27	49	43	31	55	41	28	38	48	35	46	54	30	38	44	25	46	48	33	31	44
Receive power consumption (mWh)	0.2	14	7.5	0.2	15	13	0.2	8	6.5	0.1	14	8.5	0.1	8	8	0.7	2.5	10	0.1	2	3.5	0.5	4.5	1.5	1.2	9	7.5	0.3	10	10
Transmit power consumption (mWh)	0.1	20	13	0.1	14	10	0.1	16	7	0.1	20	11	0.1	15	10	0.6	6.5	12	0.1	7.5	6.5	1.2	5	6.5	0.8	11	12	0.5	22	15
Percentage of utilization	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.6	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	0	0.4	0.7	0.1	0	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3
Average jitter (µsec)	0.4	1.1	1	1.4	14	26	4.9	12	10	5.4	17	18	1.1	8.4	16	14	14	0.3	0.1	21	1.9	2.4	1.1	0.1	0.4	16	0.7	0.6	14	0.8