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. 2016 Sep 25;16(10):1576. doi: 10.3390/s16101576

Table 2.

The simulation parameters.

Description Parameter Value
Transmitting antenna gain Gt 1
Receiving antenna gain Gr 1
Transmitting antenna height ht 1 m
Receiving antenna height hr 1 m
Maximum transmitting power pi,max For any node i, pi,max is set as randomly distributed between 0 dBm and 20 dBm
Receiver sensitivity phi For any node i, phi is as −85 dBm
Carrier signal wavelength λ 0.1224 m
System loss factor L 1
Crossover distance dcrossover 103 m
Initial battery capacity ei,int For any node i, ei,int is randomly distributed between 0.05 J and 0.2 J
Bit rate Rb 2 Mbit/s
SNR threshold γ(Mt,Mr) γ(1,1) = 54.4 dBm; γ(1,2) = 40.6 dBm;
γ(2,1) = 44.1 dBm; γ(2,2) = 36.9 dBm
Factor depending on amplifier drain efficiency and underlying modulation δ 0.5
Single-sided thermal noise PSD No −171 dBm/Hz
Passband bandwidth B 10 kHz
Receiver noise figure Nf 40 dBm
Constant depending on transmitter and receiver antenna gains Go 1
Link margin compensating for hardware variations and other sources of interference Ml 40 dBm
Power consumption for digital-to-analog converter PDAC 12 dBm
Power consumption for mixer Pmix 15 dBm
Power consumption for low noise amplifier PLNA 13 dBm
Power consumption for intermediate frequency amplifier PIFA 3 dBm
Power consumption for active filter at the transmitter side Pfilt 4 dBm
Power consumption for active filter at receiver side Pfilr 4 dBm
Power consumption for analog-to-digital converter PADC 12 dBm
Power consumption for frequency synthesizer Psyn 17 dBm
Length of data packet consisting of 4 sub-packages l 10,000 bit
Reference energy eref 0.2 J
Reference distance dref 420 m