Research Article

An Energy-Aware Data Transmission Scheme under the Guarantee of Reliability for 3D WSNs

Table 1

Parameters’ means and values.

ParameterMeansValue

(m)Distance threshold87
(nJ/bit)Transmitting circuit loss50
(pJ/bit/m2)Power amplification energy10
(pJ/bit/m4)Power amplification energy0.0013
(bit)Data packet length100
(bit)ACK packet length10
(ms)Round-trip time50
(ms)Round-trip time to out60
(ms)The interval time for next packet transmission10