Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks with Variable Interference

Table 1

Experimental setup for simulations.

Parameter	Symbol	Value
Sensitivity		−95 dBm
Packet interarrival time		100 ms
Packet size		50 bytes
Transmission power levels		22
Number of retransmissions		3
Number of CCA attempts		4
Transmitter buffer size
Grid horizontal gap		5–300 m
Grid vertical gap		5–300 m
Distance within transmitter-receiver pairs		5 m
PRR window		100
PRR moving factor		100
Minimum transmission power		−35 dBm
Intermediate transmission power		−18.42 dBm
Default transmission power		0 dBm
Maximum transmission power		10 dBm
Network interferer density		2 pairs
		16 pairs
		36 pairs
ART
Low threshold		95%
High threshold		99%
Transmission power scale		3.18 dBm
Initial transmission power		0 dBm