This is aimed at exploring how rate control and adaptation of carrier sense threshold can affect spatial reuse (and hence aggregate throughput) in a multi-hop network.

Signal-to-Interference Noise Ratio (SINR) required for successful reception at the receiver depends on the transmission rate being used. The ideal capacity of a channel with bandwidth B is given by Shannon s Equation: W=Blog(1+SINR), yielding SINR(reqd) >= (2^(W/B)-1).