ECTMRA: Energy Conserving Trustworthy Multipath Routing Algorithm Based on Cuckoo Search Algorithm

Lifetime maximization is one of the serious research issues for energy constrained wireless sensor networks. There are several ways to achieve enhanced network lifespan. This paper presents a routing algorithm namely Energy Conserving Trustworthy Multipath Routing Algorithm (ECTMRA) based on Cuckoo search algorithm, which serves its purpose by overthrowing issues such as routing overhead, memory overhead, along with the increased energy conservation is presented. This work clubs three different techniques such as clustering based on Cuckoo search algorithm, trust and multipath routing techniques into a single approach. This maximizes the lifespan of the network with the least energy consumption. Besides this, ECTMRA shows improved packet delivery ratio, network lifespan and reduced end-to-end delay, routing overhead and energy consumption. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated against existing approaches and the experimental results outperform the existing techniques.