Table 6 Presents the mean (%) & ± STD summary of the improvements achieved by IDEALS compared to SOTA protocols. It highlights the variability and consistency of IDEALS’ performance across key metrics, providing insight into the robustness of its improvements over the baseline protocols.

From: Improved distance and energy aware link stability protocol for internet of medical things

Metric

IDEALS vs. SOTA Improvement (%) (Values)

Mean (%)

± STD (%)

PDR (%)

3.66, 4.94, 7.59, 6.25

5.61

± 1.50

EtoED (ms)

13.75, 8, 10.97, 6.76

9.87

± 2.73

Throughput (kbps)

13.51, 10.53, 10.53, 5

9.89

± 2.88

NLT (Alive/Dead)

33.33, 60, 100, 60

63.33

± 24.52

RE (Joules)

40, 27.27, 27.27, 7.69

25.56

± 11.74

PL (dB)

15.38, 9.84, 12, 14.06

12.82

± 2.17

MSE

30, 22.22, 30, 30

28.06

± 3.36

BER

60.16, 49.75, 20.63, 36.71

41.31

± 15.39

PER

41.41, 36.26, 39.58, 36.96

38.55

± 2.23

CCR (%)

6.84, 9.23, 9.23, 4.32

7.41

± 1.97