“…The amount of sensor nodes, anchor nodes, and range value is varied for measuring the effect of these parameters on the algorithms through the simulation metric, ie, LE, variance, and accuracy. From Figures , 28, and 30, the impact of changing the anchor node amount on the error, variance, and accuracy is evaluated, corresponding to the total anode amount of 100, and the range value set at 30 m. It is depicted from the simulation results that the proposed (DEC‐hop) algorithm performed better in all aspects in comparison to PSO‐based DV‐hop and DV‐hop for the LE, error variance, and accuracy. From Figure 26, it is concluded that error corresponding to anchor node amount of 20 in the case of the proposed algorithm is 18% lesser than PSO‐based DV‐hop and 42% lesser than the DV‐hop algorithm.…”