Congestion Detection and Alleviation in Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks

Table 2

Simulation parameters.

Simulation parameters	Value
PHY/MAC protocol	IEEE 802.11 [17]
Propagation model	Shadowing, = 2.7, = 4
Maximum transmission range	100 m
Carrier sensing range	120 m
Transmission power with +9 dBm	495 mW (26.946 dBm)
Reception power	462 mW (26.646 dBm)
Power at idle mode	0.0231 mW ( dBm)
Power at sleep mode	0.495 mW ( dBm)