According to the 3th page of the reference material, the following elements need to be taken into consideration
- Maximum transmission unit (MTU) on the transimitting end of receiver R
- Speed of Wire W
- Transceiver latency (negligible) < 1280bytes
- Response time of sender S
- MTU on the transmitting end of sender S
The headroom should be the possible total length of bits transmitted in these five stages above.