Research Article

Design and Performance Evaluation of a Distributed OFDMA-Based MAC Protocol for MANETs

Table 2

The characteristics of a wireless link in terms of delivering a message between a sender and a receiver. (Each column except the first one represents the probability that a message corresponding to its first row is received at a receiver without an error.)

Distance from a sender (km) PDU NMU ACK RTS CTS

0.0–0.5 1 1 1 1 1
0.5–1.0 0.96 0.98 0.99 0.99 0.99
1.0–1.5 0.89 0.95 0.97 0.97 0.97
1.5–2.0 0.67 0.83 0.92 0.92 0.92
Otherwise 0 0 0 0 0