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Table 4 Notations used in this paper

From: Ant colony-based energy control routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks under different node mobility models

Symbol

Comments

Fant

Forward ant

Bant

Backward ant

Ï•

Pheromone of nodes

E avg

The average energy of a path

E sum

The total energy of a path

E min

The minimum energy of a path

E max (i)

The maximum energy of node i

E cur (i)

The residual energy of node i

N(i)

The neighbor node set of node i

HOP

Hop count of a path

S Fant (i)

Set of received Fants of node i