Wireless sensors nodes are made up of small electronic devices which are capable of sensing, computing and transmitting data from harsh physical environments like a surveillance field. These sensor nodes majorly depend on batteries for energy, which get depleted at a faster rate because of the computation and communication operations they have to perform. Communication protocols can be designed to make efficient utilization of energy resources this paper, In order to prolong the lifetime of

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... less Sensor Network (WSN), the proposed algorithm would be implemented as Multi-hop Routing with Stable Election Protocol (MR-SEP). MR-SEP partitions the network into different layers of clusters. Cluster heads in each layer collaborates with the adjacent layers to transmit sensor's data to the base station. Ordinary sensor nodes can join cluster heads of their respective fields as according to distance. The transmission of nodes is controlled by a Base Station (BS) that selects the upper layers cluster heads to act as super cluster heads for lower layer cluster heads. Thus, MR-SEP follows multi-hop routing from cluster-heads to a base station to conserve energy, unlike the SEP Protocol.