Research Article

Adaptive Fuzzy-Based Energy and Delay-Aware Routing Protocol for a Heterogeneous Sensor Network

Table 1

Summary of notations.

SymbolDescription

Number of sensor nodes in the network
ALocal actor node
Residual energy of a node i
Available (free) buffer of a node i
Quality of a link from node j to node i
Distance from node j to node i
Cost of the path to node u
Predecessor of node
Fuzzy output value (the routing metric value)
Membership value of input variable X