Research Article

CPEH: A Clustering Protocol for the Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 2

The corresponding simulation parameters used in this paper.

ParametersValues

Network area[400 m, 400 m]
Number of sensors400
Base station location(200, 200), (200, 400)
Sensor initial energy1 J
Sensor energy capacity2 J
Number of frames50-120
Sensor energy harvesting rate(25 μW-250μw), (50 μW, 500 μW)
Data packet size500 byte
Control packet size25 byte

50 nJ/bit
10 pJ/bit/m2
0.0013 pJ/bit/m4
5 nJ/bit/signal
87 m
Competition radius

Impact factor in fuzzy logic,
Number of ants10
Number of iterations in ACO20
Initial pheromone trail density
Impact factor in ACO,
Constant factor
Pheromone decay coefficient
Number of CHR candidates