The Role of Delay and Connectivity in Throughput Reduction of Cooperative Decentralized Wireless Networks

Table 1

Evaluation parameters and settings.

SIFS, DIFS, , ,	10, 50, 304, 304, 352 (s)
RCW	300, 500, 750 (s)
, transmission rate	1 Mbps
(overhead time) for IEEEb [13], (propagation time)	364, 5 s
size	2000 bits
	114 s
, bandwidth	1 MHz
()	0 to 25 dB
,	1, 0.2 to 0.9
, path loss exponent	3
,	1, 3
, [14]	1/4, 13
, , ,	1/2, 7, 1/2, 6
, number of nodes	21
, service area	10000 m^2