Edge Sensing-Enabled Multistage Hierarchical Clustering Deredundancy Algorithm in WSNs

Table 1

Notation.

Symbol	Description
	Number of similar clusters
	The effect of on the weight of , weight scaling factor
	Node size
	Number of similar clusters
	Number of data similar clusters
	Gaussian mixture coefficient
	Gaussian mixture components
	The posterior probability of the Gaussian mixture
	Cluster markers of sample
	The average of the components
	Lagrange multiplier
	Random weighting factor
	Minimizing the squared error in clustering of -means
	Power consumption of a circuit for sending or receiving data
	Energy consumption of signal amplifiers
	Energy consumption per unit of data
	Euclidean distance
	Pearson correlation distance
	Spatial similarity distance
	The mean of cluster
	covariance matrix
	Cluster markers
	The random weighted deredundancy of sensing data in