Research Article

A Data Forwarding Approach for Fire-Rescue Scenario with Multi-Type Mobile Nodes

Table 1

Description of main notations.

Parameter Description

Communication range of each node
Proportion of SRNs in data holders
Proportion of LRNs in data holders
Proportion of FNs in data holders
Movement speed of SRNs
Movement speed of FNs
Movement speed of RNs
Residence period of an SRN at each time slot
Residence period of an LRN after each bounce
Residence period of an FN at each time slot
Explosion range
Maximum bounce range
Size of each data packet
Forwarding deadline of each data packet
Number of forwarded copies at each time slot
Coordinate of at the -th time slot
Position alteration between and at the -th time slot
Position stability of at the -th time slot
Delivery ratio with SRNs at the -th time slot
Delivery ratio with LRNs at the -th time slot
Delivery ratio with FNs at the -th time slot
Delivery ratio with SRNs, LRNs and FNs at the -th time slot