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pmax. These values are used as the boundaries of the region for the ideal transmission power levels.

Therefore, our scaling method consists in using Eq. 6 for obtaining p new min and p new max for delimiting the value of the new networks' ideal transmission power level.

With this scaling methodology we repeated the initial experiment (that is, without packet loss) for a range of different network sizes k ∈ [0, 300]. The graphic in Figure 4 (bottom) shows the evolution of the resulting mean system activity. Ideally we would have expected a more or less straight line at about 0.6. This would have meant that the introduced parameter scaling method leads to a system that behaves equally for all network sizes. However, as can be seen, the scaling method only works well for networks with more than 100 nodes. For smaller networks, the mean system activity decreases.

However, this can be explained by the decreasing connectivity and communication ability.