A Proficient Bee Colony-Clustering Protocol to Prolong Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 1

Parameters of PBC-CP

Parameter	Value
Sensor field area (X ∗ Y) (m)	(100 ∗ 200)
Base station position (x, y)	(50, 150)
Number of nodes (s)	100
Initial energy of a node (Eint) (J)	0.5
Data packet length (L) (bits)	4096
Energy/bit absorbed in the transceiver circuitry Ee (nJ/bit)	70
Energy/bit absorbed in the power amplifier (Efs and Etg) (pJ/bit/m^2)	120 & 0.0013
Energy data aggregation () (nJ)	5
Number of rounds (Rmax)	3000
Colony size (CS)	50
Maximum cycle number (MCN)	200
Dimension of the food source vector (D)	20