Research Article

Maximum Power Plus RSSI Based Routing Protocol for Bluetooth Low Energy Ad Hoc Networks

Table 3

Time and current consumption of an intermediate node.

CategoryStatePhaseTime notationCurrent notation

CommonaWake-up
bPreprocessing
cPre-Tx/Rx
eTx-to-Rx
mPostprocessing
nPre-sleep

Route
request
dRx (RREQ)
fTx (RREQ)

Route
reply
gRx (ADV_DIRECT_IND)
hTx (CONNECT_REQ)
iRx (RREP)
jTx (ADV_DIRECT_IND)
kRx (CONNECT_REQ)
lTx (RREP)