few analyses have considered the use of RTS/CTS in IEEE 802.11 DCF multi-hop networks. Although RTS/CTS is effective
for avoiding packet collisions caused by hidden terminals, overhead problems occur due to the increase in the number of
RTS/CTS control packets.
As the number of RTS/CTS control packets increases, collisions between RTS/CTS control packets occur more frequently.
The analysis of networks that use RTS/CTS has been considered difficult because of the complex behaviors of RTS/CTS.
It is important to obtain analytical expressions of the maximum throughput for the networks that use RTS/CTS.