## 3 Preliminaries and Definitions
### Agdoa Algorithm
#### 4.2.2 DOA Considering Greedy Strategies
and W.C.; visualization, F.D. ; supervision, W.C.; project administration, F.D. and W.C.; funding acquisition, W.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. Figure 10: (**a**) Variation in energy consumption with the number of iterations when \(u=12\) and \(n=3\); (**b**) variation in energy consumption with the number of iterations when \(u=40\) and \(n=10\). **Funding:** This research was funded by Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province, grant number (2019B010116001,2016B010124012). **Data Availability Statement:** Not applicable. **Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest. ## References

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