Tree-Based Multihop Routing Method for Energy Efficiency of Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 1

Symbolic representation in the path tree building step.

Symbol	Definition	Symbol	Definition
	Parent node of cluster head		Path energy factor of optional parent node
	Energy consumption of transmitting data to		Remaining energy of optional parent node
	Energy consumption of receiving data to		Sum of the remaining energy of all optional parent nodes in set
	Communication energy consumption between and		Energy consumption of data transmission from to
	Coordinates of and , respectively		Sum of the energy consumption of data transmission from to all optional parent nodes in set
	th optional parent node of		Path weight parameters,
	Remaining energy factor of optional parent node