Three Gossiping Protocols in Three-Dimensional Underwater Optical Cellular Network

In this paper, three different low-complexity sector-based Gossiping routing protocols, namely Gossiping with probabilistic selection (Gossiping-PS), Gossiping with visibility priority (Gossiping-VP), and Gossiping with energy priority (Gossiping-EP), are evaluated through the three-dimensional underwater optical cellular network (UOCN). Comprehensive performance comparisons are made among the above three routing protocols in terms of the average hop, end-to-end delay, network lifetime, packet-loss rate, and energy utilization. Numerical analysis shows that Gossiping-PS significantly outperforms the other two schemes, while Gossiping-Vpand Gossiping-EP behave even worse than the standard Gossiping routing protocol under some circumstances, which is owing to the fact that the Greedy algorithm makes the best choice for the current moment instead of taking the global optimality into consideration.