Research Article

Energy Efficient Data Dissemination in Multi-UAV Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 2

Average percentage improvement by the proposed approach in comparison with EEGA, I-ERIDSR, and ERIDSR with respect to energy consumption.

Metrics EEGA I-ERIDSR ERIDSR

Packet delivery ratio (PDR) 17.2% 18.01% 31.5%
Throughput 5.5% 13.6% 9.6%
Mean hops 51% 61.5% 68.5%
Coverage 18.8% 21.4% 31.4%
Delays 10% 27.5% 41.5%
Excessive iterations 60.6% 70.4% 83.11%
Lifetime 19.19% 31.3% 50.1%