In recent years, the utilization of licensed spectrum is very low resulting in a serious waste of spectrum resources [1]. The proposed of cognitive wireless sensor network (CWSN) effectively address the problem of spectrum scarcity [2]. CWSN combines the characteristics of sensor network and cognitive technology. Cognitive users access the vacant frequencies opportunistically to improve the spectrum utilization. In CWSN, the selection of routing and spectrum are considered to be the most important research hotspots [3]. There are two routing metrics proposed to adjust to CWSN in [4]. The main purpose of this paper is to maximize data rates and minimize delay for a set of user communication sessions. A distributed and efficient cluster-based spectrum and interference aware routing protocol is proposed in [5], the proposed algorithm can well fit into the mobile CR ad hoc network and improve the network performance. Cognitive low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (CogLEACH) was introduced in [6], which is a spectrum-aware extension of the LEACH routing protocol. CogLEACH is a spectrum-aware and energy efficient clustering protocol for CWSN. The clustering routing protocol LEACH is introduced to CWSN in [7], and adapting the cognitive dynamic spectrum environment. Low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) has been introduced into CWSN, however, without taking into account the energy efficiency. One of the drawbacks of CWSN is that node energy is limited and cannot be added. It is necessary to use an effective routing protocol to improve energy efficiency and extend the survival time of CWSN. Reducing energy consumption in the process of data transmission is very important in CWSN. Studies have shown that the design of routing protocols in the CWSN introduces clustering mechanism which can improve network performance. LEACH is a typical cluster routing protocol and is introduced to CWSN. So this article made comparison of LEACH protocol with TEEN protocol, and TEEN protocol with advanced thresholdsensitive energy efficient sensor network (A-TEEN) protocol. Threshold-sensitive energy efficient sensor network (TEEN) routing protocol is the improvement of LEACH, which is added the hard threshold (HT) and soft threshold (ST) to control the number of data transmission. Introduce TEEN into CWSN, compared with LEACH, can save the energy consumption of nodes and extend the life cycle of network. This paper proposes that use TEEN routing protocol to set up the CWSN.