@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000109, title = {An Overview of Energy Efficient Routing Protocols for Acoustic Sensor Network}, author = {V. P. Dhivya and R. Arthi}, country = {}, institution = {}, abstract = {Underwater acoustic network is one of the rapidly growing areas of research and finds different applications for monitoring and collecting various data for environmental studies. The communication among dynamic nodes and high error probability in an acoustic medium forced to maximize energy consumption in Underwater Sensor Networks (USN) than in traditional sensor networks. Developing energy-efficient routing protocol is the fundamental and a curb challenge because all the sensor nodes are powered by batteries, and they cannot be easily replaced in UWSNs. This paper surveys the various recent routing techniques that mainly focus on energy efficiency. }, journal = {International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering}, volume = {8}, number = {9}, year = {2014}, pages = {1700 - 1703}, ee = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000109}, url = {https://publications.waset.org/vol/93}, bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/}, issn = {eISSN: 1307-6892}, publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology}, index = {Open Science Index 93, 2014}, }