I am working on the throughput and energy-efficient optimization for wireless information and power transfer in cooperative networks. I really need optimization algorithms that can be useful in this area.
The best subjects that I could think of to improve energy in cooperative networks are:
Clustering Algorithms.
Routing Protocols.
Enhancing these two could improve the energy consumption as the goal is the minimize the number of nodes that each node connects with and to enhance the transmission duty time of each node.