Table 4 Results comparison of proposed and existing routing schemes with varying number of mobile nodes.
Routing schemes | Number of mobile nodes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | |
| Â | Energy consumption (mW) | Packet delivery ratio (%) | ||||||||
T-MAC45 | 3.488 | 3.816 | 4.240 | 4.276 | 4.398 | 86.932 | 84.811 | 80.701 | 79.100 | 75.923 |
MS-MAC46 | 2.925 | 3.253 | 3.677 | 3.713 | 3.835 | 89.288 | 87.167 | 83.057 | 81.456 | 78.279 |
MT-MAC47 | 2.361 | 2.689 | 3.113 | 3.149 | 3.271 | 91.644 | 89.523 | 85.413 | 83.812 | 80.635 |
DT-MAC41 | 1.798 | 2.126 | 2.550 | 2.586 | 2.708 | 94.000 | 91.879 | 87.769 | 86.168 | 82.991 |
QEEC-Routing | 1.235 | 1.563 | 1.987 | 2.023 | 2.145 | 96.356 | 94.235 | 90.125 | 88.524 | 85.347 |
| Â | Network lifetime (%) | Throughput (Mbps) | ||||||||
T-MAC45 | 81.228 | 79.707 | 77.604 | 74.459 | 72.819 | 4122 | 4012 | 3957 | 3756 | 3412 |
MS-MAC46 | 85.360 | 83.839 | 81.736 | 78.591 | 76.951 | 4500 | 4419 | 4108 | 3975 | 3745 |
MT-MAC47 | 89.492 | 87.971 | 85.868 | 82.723 | 81.083 | 4852 | 4610 | 4414 | 4198 | 3989 |
DT-MAC41 | 93.624 | 92.103 | 90.000 | 86.855 | 85.215 | 5125 | 5089 | 4856 | 4657 | 4025 |
QEEC-Routing | 97.756 | 96.235 | 94.132 | 90.987 | 89.347 | 5426 | 5128 | 4987 | 4752 | 4610 |
| Â | Latency (s) | Routing overhead (%) | ||||||||
T-MAC45 | 6.574 | 7.210 | 7.326 | 7.376 | 7.492 | 18.483 | 18.816 | 19.260 | 19.494 | 19.880 |
MS-MAC46 | 5.518 | 6.154 | 6.270 | 6.320 | 6.436 | 14.921 | 15.254 | 15.698 | 15.932 | 16.318 |
MT-MAC47 | 4.462 | 5.098 | 5.214 | 5.264 | 5.380 | 11.359 | 11.692 | 12.136 | 12.370 | 12.756 |
DT-MAC41 | 3.406 | 4.042 | 4.158 | 4.208 | 4.324 | 7.797 | 8.130 | 8.574 | 8.808 | 9.194 |
QEEC-Routing | 2.350 | 2.986 | 3.102 | 3.152 | 3.268 | 4.235 | 4.568 | 5.012 | 5.246 | 5.632 |