This paper focuses on studying the impacts of a duty-cycle based CKN sleep scheduling algorithm for our previous designed TPGF geographical multipath routing algorithm in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It reveals the fact that waking up more sensor nodes cannot always help to improve the exploration results of TPGF in a duty-cycle based WSN. Furthermore, this study provides the meaningful direction for improving the application-requirement based QoS of stream data transmission in duty-cycle based wireless multimedia sensor networks.