Existing strategies are not including this detailed link analysis and fail to accurately describe all the loss probabilities for a node.
The method is evaluated for an IEEE802.11b network with RTS/CTS enabled access.
The evaluation of the saturation throughput for a 5 node linear topology is detailed and simulations have shown that the results of the semi-analytical approach fits closely the simulated throughput of the event-driven simulations.
Several saturated scenarios with arbitrary topology are also evaluated and an excellent agreement between the results of the numerical evaluation and the simulation is shown.