Energy Efficiency Performance Improvements for Ant-Based Routing Algorithm in Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

Parameters	Values
Routing protocols	Beesensor, EEABR, SC, IEEABR.
X_dist, Y_dist, number of nodes	1, 1, 100
Source type, center type, radius, rate, random rate	Static, random, 1, 4, 0
Destination type, center type, radius, rate, random rate	Static, random, 1, 0.5, 0
Maximum hops, data traffic	Infinity, constant bit rate (CBR)
Data rate	250 Kbps
Simulation time	100 Sec.
Nodes energy	30 Joules each
Ant Ratio, AntStart, EEABRAntStart	2, 240000, 240000