Research Article

A Stateless Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks

Table 2

Simulation parameters.

Parameter Value

Channel modelUnderwater acoustic channel
Transmission power90
Receiving power threshold10
Sending energy2
Receiving energy0.75
Idle energy8
Transmission range100
Packet generation rateEvery 1 s
Bit rate10 kbps
Weighting coefficient 0.6
Predefined maximum delay0.2
Node number400-800
Deployment region500 500 1000
Movement ModelMCM (0.3 )
Source node positionRandomly placed at the bottom
Sink number5
Data packet size50 Bytes
Acoustic propagation speed1500
50
60
60
Simulation time for one round1000