Resource Allocation Strategy for MI Communication-Based UWSN in Ocean Current Scenario

Aiming at the problems of low data rate and limited battery power of traditional underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) based on acoustic communication, a resource allocation strategy for magnetic induction (MI) communication-based UWSN in ocean current scenario is investigated in this paper. Specifically, multiple sensor nodes (SNs) are distributed in seawater at different depths. First, an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is introduced to charge the SNs by magnetic coupling resonant wireless power transfer (MCR-WPT) technology. Then, the SNs transmit data to the AUV through MI communication. The influence of the ocean current on the SNs and AUV is analyzed. A genetic algorithm-based particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to optimize the AUV navigation trajectory. After collecting the data from the SNs, the AUV moves to the position under a surface base station and sends the collected data to the surface base station by MI communication. To minimize system energy consumption, the transmitting power of AUV and SNs are jointly optimized under the constraints of energy causality and transmitting power. The suboptimal solution to the formulated optimization problem is obtained by adopting the improved sparrow search algorithm (ISSA) combining Cauchy variation and reverse learning. Simulation results show that the ISSA has lower system energy consumption than other benchmark methods.