Research Article

An Aggregate Signature Based Trust Routing for Data Gathering in Sensor Networks

Table 3

Parameters related to the calculation.

SymbolDescription

Network radius
Total number of nodes in the area
Emission radius of nodes
Number of hops from a node to the base station
Success rate of each hop when each data packet is sent to the sink
Any node in the network
Width of the annular area where the node is located
Distribution density of nodes in the network
Network coefficient