TY - CONF PB - Newswood Limited SP - 396 AV - none ID - scholars3156 CY - Kowloon EP - 400 SN - 20780958 N2 - During the last decades, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) arises as an emerging and future enable technology due to the latest development in the field of wireless communication, computing and storage devices. Cluster based routing is an immense solution to enhance the energy efficiency of nodes in wireless sensor networks. In this paper we propose, simulate and authenticate Mobile Data Collector (MDC) based cluster routing protocol for environmental applications, which is based on multi-hop routing strategy, self-organized sensor nodes, distributed cluster formation technique, randomly selection of cluster heads and finally forward the data to base station by the support of maximum residual energy MDC. Moreover, our approach explains the considerable enhancement than LEACH protocol in terms of energy consumption of sensor nodes and overall network lifetime. KW - Computer science; Data fusion; Energy efficiency; Energy utilization; Leaching; Virtual storage; Wireless telecommunication systems KW - Cluster head; Cluster-based routing; Data gathering; Distributed clusters; Environmental applications; Latest development; Mobile data collectors; Mobile wireless sensor network; Multi-hop routing; Network lifetime; Power-aware; Residual energy; Wireless communications; Wireless sensor network (WSNs) KW - Sensor nodes TI - Data fusion in mobile wireless sensor networks VL - 2195 N1 - cited By 7; Conference of 2012 International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists, IMECS 2012 ; Conference Date: 14 March 2012 Through 16 March 2012; Conference Code:93180 A1 - Arshad, M. A1 - Alsalem, M. A1 - Siddqui, F.A. A1 - Saad, N.M. A1 - Armi, N. A1 - Kamel, N. UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84867452514&partnerID=40&md5=361479999f43cfb1200bfc9f2c28d59e Y1 - 2012/// ER -