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Table 1 The important notations used throughout this paper

From: A novel energy-efficient probabilistic routing method for mobile opportunistic networks

Symbols

Descriptions

m

A message

v i

A node

D

The destination

TTL

Time-to-live of a message m

B

The channel bandwidth

λ i, j

The exponential distribution parameter between

 

node vi and node vj

E

The initial energy of each node

E cur

The current residual energy of node vi

E sca

The energy consumption for scanning channel

E tsm

The energy consumption for transmitting messages

E rcv

The energy consumption for receiving messages

l tc

The length of each time cycle

l ts

The length of each time slot

R TTL

The residual TTL value of message m