Fuzzy Logic Implemented Routing Techniques for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

The growing popularity of Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) owing to their applications in the field of underwater monitoring, exploration, surveillance, etc. recently has garnered the attention of the research community for designing efficient protocols for it. Due to the dynamic underwater characteristics, designing an efficient routing algorithm is a challenging task. Fuzzy logic has been proved as a suitable approach to treating random uncertainty, hence many routing proposals are utilizing it in their design. As far as we are aware, this one is the first survey paper on fuzzy logic implemented routing techniques in UWSNs. In this article, the various protocols proposed recently are categorized and then compared with their merits and demerits which will help in future developments.