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Even if the Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) have been introduced to enable many discovering applications, such as disaster prevention, sea monitoring, and oceanographic data collection (Pouryazdanpanah et al., 2014), this technology can encounter many challenges and issues, as the marine environment is considered as a large scheme where the sensors are densely deployed in a 3-Dimensional patterns (Ahmed et al., 2017), and since the underwater WSN are more complex than terrestrial WSN (Sun et al., 2015) due to their limited battery that cannot be easily recharged, their costly deployment and maintenance, their temporary loss of connectivity, the frequent change of network topology, and their limited bandwidth (Awan et al., 2019 ; Khalid et al., 2017), several approaches have been implemented to overcome those above cited problems (Khan et al., 2018). One of the UWSN main issues is the link breakage or failure problem, caused by multiple reason such as low remaining energy of the sensor, the presence of some interference that may reduce the received signal strength, or node’s mobility in a major time, the network topology change can have a harsh effect on the network performances in term of the delivered data and delay time, many studies have been discussed the link failure’s problem (Zenia et al., 2016) . In this paper, our study has been focused on the link interruption or failure and the probability of their occurs that can be caused by multiple reasons, to prevent from such inappropriate behaviour, we proposed a new method based on Newton Interpolation formula to redefine the forwarder selection policy, the method operates in a cross-layer manner to exploit the advantages of the two layers: MAC-layer and Network layer, in order to evaluate the efficiency of the link quality at first and detect if a link interruption may occurs or not, and prevent from this issue before any packet transmission. For that, when a sensor node is located at the predefined zone the effectiveness of the link has to be evaluated by the use of the well-known formula Newton Interpolation, to distinguish from both situations, when a node is moving out the transmission range of its sender’s node that makes the node no longer reachable, or it could regain its current position inside the range. In other hand, when a sensor node has a low residual energy or there is a presence of interferences, that can affect and reduces the received signal strength, in this case, the node should not be elected as forwarder. The method is divided in to three phases as follow: First the determination phase is processing when a node is inside the routing pipeline and it sender's transmission range, it has to ensure if it belongs to the predefined threshold zone, if so, the prediction phase is launched, otherwise the received signal strength is compared with a predefined signal threshold, to ensure the efficiency of the link quality. Once the node is detected at the predefined threshold zone, in this case the received signal strength of three data packets from the same sender node are collected to evaluate the link quality and predict if the concerned node laying at the predefined threshold zone could move outside the transmission range or it can regain it last position, the prediction value of the received signal is computed using the Network Interpolation formula. When a node is concerned by a future link interruption, a weak link, or a low residual energy, it will be directly isolated, and not being selected as the forwarder for the previous sender. The paper is organized as follows: first we have presented some of the realized works related to our study in section 1, second in section 2 we gave an overview about the VBF routing protocol, third the proposed protocol is presented and described along with the obtained results in section 3 and finally we have concluded the paper and presents some future works and perspectives.