Empowered Hybrid Parent Selection for Improving Network Lifetime, PDR, and Latency in Smart Grid

Table 1

Interpretation of the significance of influence in triangular fuzzy scale [35].

Influence in a numeric scale	Definition	Triangular fuzzy scale
1	Equal significance	(1, 1, 1)
3	Moderate significance	(2, 3, 4)
5	Strong significance	(4, 5, 6)
7	Very strong significance	(6, 7, 8)
9	Extreme significance	(9, 9, 9)
2	Intermediate values between two adjacent judgments	(1, 2, 3)
4		(3, 4, 5)
6		(5, 6, 7)
8		(7, 8, 9)