Research Article

Metric-Based Cooperative Routing in Multihop Ad Hoc Networks

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

𝐿 A C K 14 bytes 𝑊 20 MHz
𝐿 D A T A 500 bytes 𝐶 𝑊 m i n 15
𝑃 𝑇 1400 mW DIFS 34 μs
𝑃 𝑅 900 mW SIFS 16 μs
Basic datarate 6 Mbps Slottime 9 μs
RF efficiency 𝛼 0.5 Path loss exponent 𝜏 4.0