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

Table 4

Path lengths and number of stop stations required to charge all sensors in the RWSN.

Charge	Sensing Area ()	Number of stop stations	Path length (m)	Path length per
SCAN (16 × 16 unit squares) Figure 6(a)	51.20	256	3606	70.43
Hilbert (order 4) Figure 6(b)	51.20	256	3606	70.43
S-Curve (ad) Figure 6(c)	51.20	343	3520	68.75
Z-Curve (order 4) Figure 6(d)	51.20	320	4188	81.80
Node-Gosper curve (level 3) Figure 4(b).	89.12	343	5923	66.46

radius of the circumscribed circle of each unit square (or hexagon) was 10 m.