International Journal of Vehicular Technology

Research Article

Evaluation of Physical Carrier Sense Based Backbone Maintenance in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Table 2

CDS characteristics and number of exchanged messages and bits per node per frame for
Speed (m/s) 0 0.01 0.1 1 5 10 20 30
# of leaders
# of owners
# of gateways
Network conn. (%)
CDS conn. (%)
CDS dom. (%)
Phase I
# of msgs tx
# of msgs sx
= # of bits sx
# of msgs rx
# of bits rx
Phase II
# of msgs tx
# of msgs sx
= # of bits sx
# of msgs rx 2.8
# of bits rx
Phase III slot 1
# of msgs tx
# of msgs sx
= # of bits sx
# of msgs rx
bits rx
# of collisions
Phase III slot 2
# of msgs tx
# of msgs rx
bits rx
Phase III slot 3
# of msgs tx
# of msgs rx
bits rx
# of collisions
Phase III slot 4
# of msgs tx
# of msgs rx
bits rx
Phase III totals
# of msgs tx
# of msgs rx
bits rx
Totals
# of msgs tx
# of msgs sx 164 172 172 172 171 171 171 171
= # of bits sx
# of msgs rx 4.3
bits rx