## 1 Introduction  
With the wireless communication advancement technology and smart terminals' widespread frame, the applications of mobile multimedia are essential tools for work and daily life. Mobile multimedia applications are becoming increasingly popular due to their extensive functionality, good experience, and ubiquitous access. However, mobile multimedia service providers acquire user personal information when providing services to boost user viscosity, enhance user experience, or reserve data resources. Users must accept the privacy disclosure risk while making use of the ease of mobile multimedia services [1]. For example, the online browser history will reveal political learning's, individuals' consumption patterns, and other private information [2].  
The various application domains that use WMSNs are military, industry, healthcare, and defense [3]. Over the last year, several investigations on object tracking, environment detection, target detection, border surveillance, and enemy intrusion have been carried out [4]. Multimedia applications create significant network traffic volume, overheads, and minimizing energy consumption is a major challenge in WMSNs. This traffic requires processing skills and high transmission rates on the part of the nodes. As both of these functions require a lot of energy, they can cause depletion of premature energy nodes and as a result, the network lifespan is reduced. Hence, in WMSNs, a dependable routing protocol and the creation of an effect that increases the network lifespan while also fulfillingthe service quality needs of multimedia applications are crucial [5]. The WMSNs' intrinsic qualities, such as limited bandwidth, dynamic links, and variable channel capacity, pose significant challenges to the design of WMSN routing protocols. Also, the limited resources, namely processing capability, buffer sizes, memory, bandwidths, and energy, are all factors that add to the difficulty of designing routing algorithms for WMSNs [6; 7]. To overcome the issue, creating a routing protocol that detects routes effectively and selects a route among the sink and the detecting nodes. The routing protocol that uses a single path approach is particularly vulnerable to the extremely dynamic nature of wireless networks, and the multi-hop route has a limited capacity, and they are unable to provide high data communication for WMSNs [8]. Furthermore, the sensor nodes' resources are limited in terms of memory, computational energy, and bandwidth, and congestion can have a significant impact on WMSN performance [9; 10]. Numerous research works based on energy efficient wireless multisensor routing protocols have been developed. Meanwhile, those techniques faced the above mentioned limitations, which motivated us to present a novel article. The significant intention of this paper is to eliminate data redundancy and thereby select the optimal cluster head (CH) and minimize the energy consumption as well as enhance the network lifetime.  
The major contributions of the article are depicted below:  
* To propose a novel fuzzy criminal search Ebola optimization (FCSEO) algorithm for the optimal selection of cluster heads.
* To mitigate data redundancy, thereby enhancing the network lifetime and minimizing the energy consumption.
* To conduct extensive experimentation between various approaches to determine the effectiveness of the proposed system.  
The remaining section of the paper is structured as follows. In Section 2, the survey for the cluster head selection process based on energy efficient routing protocols is discussed. Section 3 discusses the network model and energy consumption model. The proposed approach based on data redundancy elimination as well as cluster head selection is presented in Section 4. The results for various parameters are presented in Section 5. At last, the conclusion of the article is presented in Section 6.