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For some two-way wireless protocols (like wifi) you have to take into account the guard interval, slot times and interframe spacing which are all values set in time (~1-50us). For long distance transmissions your speed-of-light limited signal propagation time can exceed these values.

In terms of size usually guard interval < slot size < inter-frame space. If propagation exceeds guard interval AND have a channel with lots of echo any communication will be difficult. If propagation exceeds slot timing then coordination between more than 2 devices will be different (high retries/low throughput). If propagation exceeds interframe spacing a two-way wifi connection will not be possible as both stations will think every frame timed out waiting for an ACK.

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_interval https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_coordination_funct... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Interframe_Space