Research Article

Development and Performance Evaluation of a New Energy-Efficient Double Cluster-Head Routing (EEDCR) Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 2

Descriptive analysis.

Descriptive statistics

Method name# fittedMeanMedianStd. Dev.Root.M. Sqr.Std.Err. meanMinimumMaximumSkewnessKurtosis
Number of nodes alive with data aggregation1787.824100.00024.99891.1106.06320.000100.000-2.0363.048
NE1781.000100.00031.72386.6507.6940.000100.000-1.6771.805
1773.58892.00033.08180.2828.0230.000100.000-1.046-0.136
Number of nodes alive without data aggregation2389.130100.00026.99592.9595.6290.000100.000-2.5565.701
NE2384.391100.00030.71189.5776.4040.000100.000-1.8672.230
2382.478100.00027.52886.7615.74019.000100.000-1.3350.274
Packet received ratio without data aggregation1088.70089.5002.49788.7320.79085.00092.000-0.270-1.630
NE1085.90085.5003.07185.9490.97181.00090.000-0.228-1.129
1077.00075.5006.58377.2532.08269.00087.0000.520-1.354
Packet received ratio with data aggregation1092.50092.0001.31692.5140.54391.00096.0000.9900.208
NE1091.50091.5001.75491.5090.62890.00094.0000.504-0.468
1080.70081.0005.67780.8801.79572.00089.000-0.109-1.174