Improving Packet Delivery Performance in Water Column Variations through LOCAN in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network

Table 7

Comparison of performance of LOCAN and COCAN in different water column variations.

Water column variations	Temperature, salinity, Doppler effect, sedimentation drift
	20-25°C, 30-50 ppt, 1000-2000 l/hr+sand	25-50°C, 30-50 ppt, 1000-2000 l/hr+sand	20-25°C, 50+ ppt, 1000-2000 l/hr+sand	20-25°C, 50+ ppt, 2000-3000 l/hr+sand	20-25°C, 30-50 ppt, 2000-3000 l/hr+sand	25-50°C, 50+ ppt, 1000-2000 l/hr+sand	25-50°C, 30-50 ppt, 2000-3000 l/hr+sand	25-50°C, 50+ ppt, 2000-3000 l/hr+sand
LOCAN
Power consumed	0.423	0.487	0.512	0.598	0.499	0.574	0.569	0.587
Packet delivery ratio	1.385	1.314	1.287	1.105	1.214	1.198	1.076	1.119
COCAN
Power consumed	0.621	0.634	0.622	0.698	0.667	0.647	0.699	0.711
Packet delivery ratio	0.812	0.805	0.789	0.699	0.745	0.712	0.667	0.654