The applications and the role of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in real world encourage researchers to elaborate and explore more information about it. As we know a WSN consist of thousands of sensor nodes (static or mobile) which gather information from a specific region and then transmit it base station (static or mobile) with some mechanism. There are various protocols that are proposed to govern this communication in effective way. But the challenges such as energy consumption, mobile sink scheduling and data aggregation are still need to improve. So that the lifetime of WSN can be extended. This paper cover and present a survey on some protocols and related research works for WSN challenges that improve the performance of network.