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During the last years, Underwater Acoustic Sensors Networks (UASNs) has emerged as an interesting area of research. The harsh characteristics that the underwater environment possesses cause many challenges for the lifetime of UASNs and the major challenge that UASNs face is Energy efficiency which occurs for the reason of limited battery power that the sensor nodes own. Hence, in order to cope with the underwater characteristics like limited bandwidth and high attenuation and to optimize the limited energy consumption, the designing of UASNs protocols need to done with utmost care. Lots of research have been done in this fields but still several issues and challenges have been met by this networks like: hotspot problem, real implementation of routing protocols, propagation delay, power consumption, energy efficient path etc. The main focus of this work is to present the existing issues and challenges that provides the future directions to do the research in the field of underwater acoustic sensor networks.
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Gola, K.K., Singh, B.M., Mridula, Kanauzia, R., Arya, S. (2023). Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks: Concepts, Applications and Research Challenges. In: Abraham, A., Pllana, S., Casalino, G., Ma, K., Bajaj, A. (eds) Intelligent Systems Design and Applications. ISDA 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 717. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35510-3_35
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