Reliable path and minimum energy communication by using cooperative protocol in wireless networks

In cooperative networks, each node in the routing path recruits the neighboring nodes to transmit and receive the data to assist in communication. It forms a cluster at transmitting and receiving ends and transmission link between these two clusters. This paper proposes a new reliable and energy efficient protocol to establish a cluster at the receiver end, before receiving the data. The end-to-end robustness of the protocol to data-packet loss, along with the trade-off between energy consumption and error rate is analyzed here. The analysis results are used to compare to end-to-end robustness and energy savings of our new protocol with two schemes such as one non-cooperative and one another cooperative scheme named as CAN-I. Cooperative nodes establish a wireless network for transferring, processing and monitoring the data developing an energy efficient routing protocol to increase the overall lifetime of the networks.