AH-MAC: Adaptive Hierarchical MAC Protocol for Low-Rate Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Table 3

Simulation setting parameters.

Simulation time	3600 sec
Number of nodes	100
Area	100 × 100
Number of CHs	5
Platform	TI-CC1120
Beacon rate	1 sec
Packet rate	2 packets/min
Beacon Packet size	20 bytes
Data packet size (CH)	36 bytes
Data packet size (node)	28 bytes
ACK packet size	14 bytes
Active period	0.05 sec