Energy Efficient Adaptive Cooperative Routing (EEACR) with multiple sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of hundreds or thousands of battery operated, computable and low cost sensors. In WSNs energy conservation is an important design issue for routing, power management and data dissemination protocols. The existing cooperative routing is addressed to reduce the energy consumption. We propose an algorithm Energy Efficient Adaptive Cooperative Routing (EEACR), that maximizes the energy and Lifetime of the network. Mathematical model is developed to find the best location of the sink to reduce the distance between sources and the sink. A comparative study of EEACR with multiple static and mobile sinks is carried out. Simulation result shows that the EEACR algorithm produces better result than the existing Algorithms.