Research Article
A Team Study of a Multiple-Power Wireless Random Channel Access Mechanism with Capture Effect
Table 1
Main notations used in the paper.
| Notation | Description |
| | The total number of mobile stations. | | The number of backlogged packets at the beginning of the current slot. | | Packet arrival probability. | | Retransmission probability of backlogged packet of MS . | | Transition probability from state to state . | | The steady probability at state . | |
Probability that a packet transmission succeeds in the presence of simultaneous packet transmission attempts. | | Average window size. | | The number of power levels. | | SINR of MS experienced by the base station. | | Target SINR allowing the BS to correctly decode received packet. | | The power level. | | Probability to select the power level. | | The channel gain of MS . |
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