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This paper proposes a cooperative data collection algorithm (CDCA), which aims to prolong the network lifetime of the given WSNs. The CDCA initially partitions the n sensor nodes into k groups and assigns each mobile sink acting as the local mobile sink to collect data generated by the sensors of each group. Then the CDCA selects an appropriate set of data collection points in each group and establishes a separate path passing through all the data collection points in each group. Finally, a global path is constructed and the rendezvous time points and the speed of each mobile sink are arranged for collecting data from k local mobile sinks to the global mobile sink. Performance evaluations reveal that the proposed CDCA outperforms the related works in terms of rendezvous time, network lifetime, fairness index as well as efficiency index.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18082627","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,10]],"date-time":"2018-08-10T10:52:01Z","timestamp":1533898321000},"page":"2627","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Cooperative Data Collection Mechanism Using Multiple Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Weimin","family":"Wen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou 239000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0672-5593","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chih-Yung","family":"Chang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University, New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shenghui","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou 239000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Cuijuan","family":"Shang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer and Information Engineering, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou 239000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,8,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1965","DOI":"10.1109\/JSEN.2011.2182341","article-title":"Wireless sensor network based home monitoring system for wellness determination of elderly","volume":"12","author":"Suryadevara","year":"2012","journal-title":"IEEE Sens."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"105","DOI":"10.1109\/TSMCA.2010.2058098","article-title":"A framework for information-based sensor management for the detection of static targets","volume":"41","author":"Kolba","year":"2011","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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