Lifetime Optimization of a Multiple Sink Wireless Sensor Network through Energy Balancing

Table 1

Related work in multiple sinks in WSN.

Authors (year) papers	Hops	Sinks	Mobility of sink	Sink positioning	Network restructuring
Singh et al., 2014 [17]	Multiple	Multiple	Yes	No	No
Lee et al., 2009 [16]	Multiple	Multiple	Yes	Yes	No
Jain et al., 2014 [4]	Single	Multiple	No	Yes	No
Shah-Mansouri et al., 2009 [1]	Single	Multiple	Yes	Yes	No
Jain, 2012 [18]	Multiple	Single	No	Yes	No
Heinzelman et al., 2000 [8]	Single	Single	No	No	No
Farooq et al., 2010 [9], Koutsopoulos and Stanczak, 2012 [10], Li, 2005 [11], Fedor and Collier, 2007 [13]	Multiple	Single	No	No	No
Dandekar and Deshmukh, 2013 [3]	Multiple	Multiple	No	No	No