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Table 1 Network parameters

From: ASO-TDMA: ad-hoc self-organizing TDMA protocol for shipborne ad-hoc networks

Parameters

Description

N

The number of ships

i

The index of ships (1 ≤ i ≤ N)

m

The number of hops (or sub-frames)

h i

The hop of ship i

k

The index of hops (or sub-frames) (1 ≤ k ≤ m)

N k

The number of time slots belonging to sub-frame k

N Af

The number of time slots in one frame for ASO-TDMA