Research Article

Congestion-Adaptive and Delay-Sensitive Multirate Routing Protocol in MANETs: A Cross-Layer Approach

Table 1

Simulation parameters in the MAC layer.

ParametersValue

MAC header52 bytes
PHY header28 bytes
Rate for MAC/PHY header1 Mbps
RTS44 bytes
CTS38 bytes
ACK38 bytes
Slot time20 μs
SIFS10 μs
DIFS50 μs
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