I found the following talk relevant to distances between all the nodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNoUcQTCxiM

Distance is an abstract idea but applies to energy into a node as well as
phylogenetic trees. It's the same problem, i.e. fitting a distance matrix
using some sort of tree. I've found the five branch tree works well for
four nodes.

Bob

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:37 PM Leonard Kleinrock <lk@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> These cases are what my student, Fouad Tobagi and I called the Hidden
> Terminal Problem (with the Busy Tone solution) back in 1975.
>
> Len
>
>
> > On Aug 2, 2021, at 4:16 PM, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> >
> > If you are going to setup a test environment for wifi, you need to
> include the ability to make a fe cases that only happen with RF, not with
> wired networks and are commonly overlooked
> >
> > 1. station A can hear station B and C but they cannot hear each other
> > 2. station A can hear station B but station B cannot hear station A 3.
> station A can hear that station B is transmitting, but not with a strong
> enough signal to decode the signal (yes in theory you can work around
> interference, but in practice interference is still a real thing)
> >
> > David Lang
> >
>
>

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