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| Symbol | Description |
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| Data gathering delay: time available for a mobile BS tour |
| Transmission range of a sensor node |
| Maximum allowable length of the mobile BS tour, |
| Actual length of the mobile BS tour |
| Length of the mobile BS tour connecting cluster centroids |
| , | Average and maximum speed of the mobile BS, respectively |
| Packets request time, from data request to receiving the first data packet |
| Packet time: average time required to transmit a data packet to the BS |
| Contact time |
| Residual contact time |
| Total time to send data of the cluster nodes to the BS () |
| Radius of the network field |
| Network nodes |
| Number of the clusters |
| Number of nodes in a cluster |
| Number of nodes the cluster head can successfully send their data to the BS |
| Number of packet losses |
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