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Currently, many routing protocols have been proposed for UWSNs to ensure reliable data delivery and to conserve the node\u2019s battery with minimum communication overhead (by avoiding void holes in the network). In this paper, adaptive energy-efficient routing protocols are proposed to tackle the aforementioned problems using the Shortest Path First (SPF) with least number of active nodes strategy. These novel protocols have been developed by integrating the prominent features of Forward Layered Multi-path Power Control One (FLMPC-One) routing protocol, which uses 2-hop neighbor information, Forward Layered Multi-path Power Control Two (FLMPC-Two) routing protocol, which uses 3-hop neighbor information and \u2019Dijkstra\u2019 algorithm (for shortest path selection). Different Packet Sizes (PSs) with different Data Rates (DRs) are also taken into consideration to check the dynamicity of the proposed protocols. The achieved outcomes clearly validate the proposed protocols, namely: Shortest Path First using 3-hop neighbors information (SPF-Three) and Breadth First Search with Shortest Path First using 3-hop neighbors information (BFS-SPF-Three). Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed protocols in terms of minimum Energy Consumption (EC) and Required Packet Error Rate (RPER) with a minimum number of active nodes at the cost of affordable delay.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19030510","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,29]],"date-time":"2019-01-29T03:40:55Z","timestamp":1548733255000},"page":"510","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Exploiting Layered Multi-Path Routing Protocols to Avoid Void Hole Regions for Reliable Data Delivery and Efficient Energy Management for IoT-Enabled Underwater WSNs"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4605-9265","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Suhail Ashfaq","family":"Butt","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia"},{"name":"Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Lahore 54000, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Kamalrulnizam Abu","family":"Bakar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Nadeem","family":"Javaid","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1309-2536","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Niayesh","family":"Gharaei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Farruh","family":"Ishmanov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, Korea"}]},{"given":"Muhammad Khalil","family":"Afzal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wah Campus, COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Cantonment 47040, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Muhammad Khalid","family":"Mehmood","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia"},{"name":"Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bahawalpur 63100, Pakistan"}]},{"given":"Muhammad Akram","family":"Mujahid","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai 81310, Johor, Malaysia"},{"name":"Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Lahore 54000, Pakistan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,1,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"257","DOI":"10.1016\/j.adhoc.2005.01.004","article-title":"Underwater acoustic sensor networks: research challenges","volume":"3","author":"Ian","year":"2005","journal-title":"Ad Hoc Netw."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"16763","DOI":"10.3390\/s150716763","article-title":"Node deployment algorithm based on connected tree for underwater sensor networks","volume":"15","author":"Peng","year":"2015","journal-title":"Sensors"},{"key":"ref_3","unstructured":"Almir, D., and Chang, H. 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