Increasing Aggregation Convergecast Data Collection Frequency through Pipelining

Table 1

Table of notation.

	Number of nodes
	Node
	Sink node
	Micro-schedule length in slots
	Node transmission slot () within a micro–schedule
	Is arc (,) transmitting at time ? (binary)
	Node ’s snapshot index in the micro-schedule relative to other snapshots within the same micro-schedule
	Node aggregation sojourn time total
	Collection delay in slots
	1-hop neighbors of node
	Recipient of the transmission of node