eprintid: 1802 rev_number: 2 eprint_status: archive userid: 1 dir: disk0/00/00/18/02 datestamp: 2023-11-09 15:49:58 lastmod: 2023-11-09 15:49:58 status_changed: 2023-11-09 15:41:23 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Arshad, M. creators_name: Armi, N. creators_name: Kamel, N. creators_name: Saad, N.M. title: Mobile data collector based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks ispublished: pub keywords: Humulus note: cited By 19 abstract: In the era of New Generation Networks (NWGN) many emerging and future enable technologies accomplish the requirementsofubiquitous communication networks. Mobile wireless sensor network (mWSN) is one of the rising and emerging technologies for various application of NWGN, the enormous concerns of these networks are data gathering with energy efficiency. Routing protocol act as middleware, which is responsible to enhance the network performance with less energy consumption. In this paper we propose, analyze and validate mobile data collector (MDC) based LEACH routing protocol for environmentalapplicationwhich is based on multi-hop routing strategy. MDC based LEACH routing protocol utilizes self-organized sensor nodes with distributed cluster formation technique, randomly selection of cluster heads to equally balance the energy consumption among the sensor nodes and finally forward the data to base station by the support of MDC. Moreover, our approach shows the significant improvement in terms of energy consumption of sensor nodes, enhance network lifetime and data gathering at base station areoutperform when compared with LEACH protocol. © 2011 Academic Journals. date: 2011 official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84858166316&doi=10.5897%2fSRE11.1339&partnerID=40&md5=ae9d16d58a54b8dcb76581e0c71c9338 id_number: 10.5897/SRE11.1339 full_text_status: none publication: Scientific Research and Essays volume: 6 number: 29 pagerange: 6162-6175 refereed: TRUE issn: 19922248 citation: Arshad, M. and Armi, N. and Kamel, N. and Saad, N.M. (2011) Mobile data collector based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. Scientific Research and Essays, 6 (29). pp. 6162-6175. ISSN 19922248