USCDRP: unequal secure cluster-based distributed routing protocol for wireless sensor networks

In the last decade, parallel computing techniques become more popular and offer various architectures to perform diverse processes in an individual computing node or a collection of strongly linked nodes with homogeneous hardware. In this paper, we propose a distributed secure unequal cluster-based multipath routing protocol (USCDRP) for improving the energy efficiency and also to enhance the security as well as reliability. The presented USCDRP is the enhanced work of SCMRP, which provides the security to a particular extent. The presented method offers reliability, energy efficiency and maximum lifetime. Besides, an independent clustering method is provided to eliminate the orphan nodes and cluster maintenance strategy to enhance the network lifetime. A detailed experimental analysis ensured the superiority of the USCDRP over the compared methods concerning throughput, energy efficiency and network lifetime analysis. The simulation outcome indicated that all the nodes in WSN become dead node, and the network becomes inactive in the round number of 2021 by Sec-LEACH, 2412 by SCMRP and 3245 by USCDRP.