aspg-20-1298-1791307640 20261006172720 American Scientific Publishing Group admin@americaspg.com American Scientific Publishing Group International Journal of Wireless and Ad Hoc Communication IJWAC 2692-4056 2022 5 1 Heba M. Fadhil Department of Information and Communication, Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq Muna M. Hummady Department of Information and Communication, Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq Noor Q. Makhool Department of Information and Communication, Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq Zinah O. Dawood Department of Information and Communication, Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq The development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in the underwater environment leads to underwater WSN (UWSN). It has severe impact over the research field due to its extensive and real-time applications. However effective execution of underwater WSNs undergoes several problems. The main concern in the UWSN is sensor nodes’ energy depletion issue. Energy saving and maintaining quality of service (QoS) becomes highly essential for UWASN because of necessity of QoS application and confined sensor nodes (SNs). To overcome this problem, numerous prevailing methods like adaptive data forwarding techniques, QoS-based congestion control approaches, and various methods have been devised with maximum throughput and minimum network lifespan. This study introduces a novel Seeker Optimization based Energy Aware Clustering Scheme for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (SOEACS-UWN). The presented SOEACS-UWN model follows the operation on a collection of solutions named search population (i.e., human team) and considered optimization procedure as a searching process of optimum solutions via human teams. The SOEACS-UWN model constructs a fitness function for effectual CH choices using diverse variables namely distance, residual energy, node degree, centrality, and link quality. The simulation analysis of the SOEACS-UWN model is tested and the outcomes were investigated under diverse aspects. The experimental outcomes demonstrated the supremacy of the SOEACS-UWN model over other approaches. 2022 08 21 1298 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.54216/IJWAC.050101 https://americaspg.com/journal/20/article/1298 https://americaspg.com/storage/9509.pdf