%0 Conference Paper %A Chughtai, O. %A Badruddin, N. %A Awang, A. %A Rehan, M. %D 2013 %F scholars:3775 %I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. %K Internet protocols; Network routing; Routing protocols, AODV; Congestion-aware; Cooperative Selection; Reactive routing; Traffic loads, Wireless sensor networks %P 495-499 %R 10.1109/SCOReD.2013.7002640 %T A cooperative selection reactive routing protocol for wireless sensor networks %U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/3775/ %X In Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs), routing protocol is an important aspect to utilize network resources fairly. Normally, routing mechanisms are selfish in nature and are based on a single objective criterion, e.g., hop count. This behaviour is inappropriate for a long lasting communication as it causes performance degradation in the entire network and ultimately leads to network congestion. To enhance network performance, we propose a Co-operative Selection Reactive Routing Protocol (CSRP) that cooperatively selects the End-to-End (ETE) route by considering the traffic load along with the hop count. We compared CSRP with AODV using ns-2.35 in terms of ETE throughput, ETE delay, and Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR). The results reveal that CSRP improves throughput by 20.95, reduces delay by 18.65 and increases PDR by 56.41. © 2013 IEEE. %Z cited By 2; Conference of 2013 11th IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development, SCOReD 2013 ; Conference Date: 16 December 2013 Through 17 December 2013; Conference Code:109913