Table 14 Control Overhead (%).

From: EECH HEED an adaptive hybrid clustering protocol for energy efficient soil monitoring in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks

Protocol

EECH-HEED (Mean ± SD)

Baseline (Mean ± SD)

95% CI

p-value

Significant?

HCRT

9.0 ± 0.32

11.0 ± 0.45

[8.84, 9.16]

 < 0.01

Yes

LEACH

9.0 ± 0.32

15.0 ± 0.58

[8.84, 9.16]

 < 0.001

Yes

HEED

9.0 ± 0.32

13.0 ± 0.61

[8.84, 9.16]

 < 0.001

Yes

EECH

9.0 ± 0.32

12.0 ± 0.55

[8.84, 9.16]

 < 0.001

Yes

TCO

9.0 ± 0.32

14.0 ± 0.61

[8.84, 9.16]

 < 0.001

Yes

FPA

9.0 ± 0.32

11.5 ± 0.49

[8.84, 9.16]

 < 0.001

Yes

MIMO-HC

9.0 ± 0.32

10.8 ± 0.53

[8.84, 9.16]

 < 0.01

Yes

HTCCR

9.0 ± 0.32

10.5 ± 0.50

[8.84, 9.16]

 < 0.01

Yes

EEHP

9.0 ± 0.32

10.2 ± 0.47

[8.84, 9.16]

 < 0.01

Yes