Network Model for Improved Localization Performance in UWSN:A Node Deployment Perceptive

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs), is one of the stat-of-the-art research areas if the present day oceanography domain is concerned due to the kind of support it offers for the wide range of underwater applications. Due to the drastic increase in the number of potential underwater applications the effective communication between different underwater nodes need to be ensured. But when putting in place an Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks, one of the most important tasks is the deployment of nodes, which plays an important role in achieving seamless routing in the tricky underwater environment. Because only based on the node deployment, most of the essential network services such as network boundary detection, routing, and topology control of network are carried out. A huge amount of research is done with respect to 2D node deployments in terrestrial networks, but the amount of attention given to 3D node deployments are very limited. So the scope of this article revolves around analyzing the effects of node deployment techniques on the localization performance of the UWSN environment which is 3 dimensional in nature. This research work has considered three different node deployment strategies such as regular tetrahedron, cube, and random node deployment techniques for conducting simulation study. As a result of the simulation study carried out in this research article, it is clear that the performance of regular tetrahedron node deployment is a way better than cube node deployment and random node deployment techniques. Since most of the present day applications use random node deployment, the results of this article may lead to the improved design of UWSN in the upcoming years.