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To prevent node h from being selected as a next-hop node by its peer neighbors,

it ignores the PROBs and never participates in the selection until its Drop-PROB-

Timer expires. When the Drop-PROB-Timer of node h expires, it can participate

in the next-hop selection process again. In general, the time value of Drop-PROB-

Timer (T

Drop–PROB–Timer

) should be long enough, such as:

T N t

Drop PROB Timer E Group sel− − −

= ⋅ .

(5.4)

In Equation (5.4), N

E–Group

denotes the maximum number of LCs in the

E-Group. t

sel

denotes the time for one-hop route selection. Considering the worst

case, where ...