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The wireless sensor networks (WSN) are widely used in the variety of data collection applications around the globe. The popular uses of WSN include the military, weather, agriculture, healthcare and many other sectors. The WSN suffers from the intense problem of throughput, which primarily occurs due to the network overhead occurred due to the various reasons. There are multiple ways, which can be used to increase the throughput of the network, but none of them is capable of increasing the efficiency more than 10%. In this paper, the work has been carried upon the duty cycling, which is associated with the sleep-awake scheduling for the purpose of throughput maximization. The proposed model utilizes the robust pairing mechanism for the sensor nodes, which has been designed on the basis of compatibility factor. The compatibility factor acts as the trust factor to create the node pairs between the most compatible nodes. The performance of this model is optimized by combining the role switch timer and compatibility factor. The proposed model has been observed with the improvement throughput, which is observable from the obtained results. The best combination out of all is fourth combination (beta=0.5, alpha=0.5), which is observed with approximately 0.51 throughput against the 0.450, 0.458 and 0.487 values for the other three combinations. Also, the variation of the throughput on all of the events is not found similar on any of the two events.