Research Article

An Empirical Evaluation of Lightweight Random Walk Based Routing Protocol in Duty Cycle Aware Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 2

Simulation parameters.

Parameter Scenario
Static Mobile

Simulation time 500 sec 500 sec
Area 200 m × 200 m 500 m × 500 m
Number of nodes 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 100
Trans. range 40 m 40 m
Duty cycle 100%, 50%, 25%, 12% 100%, 50%, 25%, 12%
PAN coordinator 1 1
Local coordinators 39, 78, 117, 156, 195 39
Mobility model Random deployment Random waypoint
Speed of nodes 0 m/s 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 m/s
Pause time 2 sec