Table 4 Performance comparison of routing protocols.

From: AI-based routing algorithms improve energy efficiency, latency, and data reliability in wireless sensor networks

Metric

AI-based routing

DVR

LSR

ACO

Packet delivery ratio

0.95

0.85

0.88

0.91

End-to-end delay (ms)

25

40

35

30

Energy consumption (J)

500

600

550

580

Network lifetime (days)

150

120

130

140

Scalability index

0.85

0.75

0.78

0.82

Computational efficiency (ops/J)

120

90

100

95

Energy efficiency

0.90

0.85

0.88

0.86

Robustness index

0.92

0.85

0.87

0.90

Adaptability rate

0.88

0.82

0.85

0.86

Generalization error

0.05

0.08

0.07

0.06