Summary
The power sensor terminals control in wireless sensor network (WSN) communicate within a small number of its radio range. As a branch operating based on the cluster routing protocol, it has proven to be effective in network topology management, energy reduction, and path connection link quality of the path. Location‐based clusters are categorized into member nodes and group/cluster heads (CHs). The CH election process increases the overhead of the network. The processing and energy limitations of the nodes are considered for the CH election process. The allocation of system resources is the major issue in the area of networks. In this work, the proposed multipath self‐adaptive balancer routing‐based particle swarm optimization (MLBAR‐PSO) achieves load balancing by means of the link quality of the route and the calculated average latency and reliability of the path. In this way, different trust values are set in each category. The forwarding node value is the value of each node based on the weight value, which is calculated based on the energy ratio of the node and the distance between the hiding node and the target node. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) selects the head cluster from a specific location within the cluster to enable other nodes to interact with the CH without spending energy. Also, the algorithm is used to find the optimal path for the base station and significantly increases the energy to reduce the distance and delay over the lifetime of the network.