Taylor-Spotted Cat Optimization (Taylor-SCO): An Energy-Efficient Cluster Head Selection Algorithm with Improved Trust Factor for Data Routing in WSN

Table 2

Comparative discussion.

Metrics/methods	DEEHC	GWO	Tabu PSO	EHO-Greedy	C-SSA	MCH-EOR	Taylor-SHO	Proposed Taylor-SCO
50 nodes
Energy consumption (J)	0.00217	0.00193	0.00183	0.00174	0.00220	0.00195	0.000967	0.00075
Throughput (kbps)	5109.02	5229.23	4917.78	5027.06	5057.9	5176.9	5464.2	6010.62
Trust	0.518	0.514	0.52	0.522	0.513	0.509	0.537	0.54
100 nodes
Energy consumption (J)	0.00120	0.000967	0.000870	0.000774	0.00122	0.00098	0.000483	0.00039
Throughput (kbps)	6386.28	6536.54	6147.22	6283.83	6322.42	6471.18	7103.46	7813.80
Trust	0.513	0.516	0.508	0.511	0.508	0.511	0.541	0.55
150 nodes
Energy consumption (J)	0.00120	0.000966	0.000869	0.00077	0.00136	0.00108	0.000483	0.00037
Throughput (kbps)	6482.55	6635.08	6239.89	6378.55	6417.73	6568.74	7210.54	7931.60
Trust	0.505	0.5025	0.506	0.503	0.500	0.497	0.507	0.51