Under uniform traffic, the transmission durations of links in a pairing are diverse in MPMH [1].
However, the transmission durations of links in a pairing are the same under both traffic patterns in MPMH-SRSC.
The differences among the transmission durations of links in a pairing under random traffic are worse, which result in further degradations in the throughput performance.
The column labeled as Link Metric (LM) shows the resulting numeric value associated with the duration of the link between two nodes.
Especially, if the duration of any link failure in the network is bounded, then the control gain and the scaling function can be selected properly such that 5-level quantizers suffice for asymptotic average-consensus with an exponential convergence rate.
Meanwhile, the network topology of IoV is complicated and changes rapidly, the time of duration of communications link is short, and the moving range of nodes is broad [6].
Otherwise, the value of X(Ni, Nj,t) is equal to 0. Given two nodes N i and N j, at time t1, the duration of the link (N i, N j ) is the length of the longest time interval [t1, t2] during which the two nodes are within the coverage area of each other.
Figure 8 Mean packet duration of ZigBee links L2 - L5.
Mobility factors: The relative speed between two nodes, the nodes' directions, and the relative angle between two nodes determine how the overlapping area of the nodes' transmission areas varies and, as a consequence, they have a significant impact on the duration of the links.
Thus, the process duration of a hard link switching scheme (i.e., link switching delay), which mainly originates from the scanning period, is an important problem in terms of guaranteeing a seamless data transmission.
