Cross-layer flow control in lightly-loaded multi-hop ad hoc networks
Alex Varshavsky, Baochun Li, Eyal de Lara · 2004
The throughput in multi-hop ad hoc networks (MANETs) is highly dependent on the sending rate and the route length from the source node to the destination. Sending packets at the optimal rate for a given route length maximizes throughput in the network, whereas slightly increasing the sending rate over the optimal value may decrease throughput by up to 55%.