A Novel Data Collection Method with Recharge Plan for Rechargeable Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 3

Simulation configuration parameters.

Items	Values
Sensing regions	Square regions of 300 m × 300 m for direct transmission, multihop, and LEACH; Level-3 node-Gosper island (radius of circumscribed circle of each basic hexagon is 10 m)
Coordinates of base station
Number of sensors	200, 300, 500
Data packet size	4000 bits
Control packet size (for TDMA in LEACH and my proposed method)	100 bits
(energy consumption per bit for transmitting or receiving data)	50 nJ/bit
(the parameter of the transmission amplifier when the transmission distance does not exceed the threshold )	10 pJ/bit/m^2
(the parameter of the transmission amplifier when the transmission distance exceeds the threshold )	0.0013 pJ/bit/m^4
(energy consumption per bit for data aggregation for LEACH and my proposed method)	5 nJ/bit
Aggregation ratio (for LEACH and my proposed method)	60%
Number of rounds	100