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In addition, the underwater sensor network also has a \u201chot zone\u201d problem. To address the uneven energy consumption of the network caused by the above problem, the non-uniform clustering algorithm for energy equalization is put forward. Considering the residual energy, density and coverage redundancy of nodes, this algorithm selects the cluster heads and makes them more reasonably distributed. Additionally, according to the selected cluster heads, the size of each cluster is designed to equalize the energy consumption of the network during multi-hop routing. In this process, the residual energy of cluster heads and the mobility of nodes are considered, and real-time maintenance is performed for each cluster. 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