Construction of Quality Virtual Backbones with Link Fault Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 1

Parameters and their values used in the simulations.

Parameters	Definitions	Values
	The size of network	[10, 250]
	Transmission range of each node	25 m or 35 m
	Data packet size	256 bytes
	Energy dissipated in electronics for 1-bit transmission and reception	50 nJ/bit
	Energy consumed in power amplifier in two-ray propagation model	0.0013 pJ/bit/m^4
	Ratio of energies consumed in reception and idle listening modes	0.8
	Initial energy of each node	1 J
	Number of packets per round	10