Holding time calculation depends on two factors Htmax and forwarding function FF. There is no appreciable explanation of Htmax which is termed as system parameter in previous literature. Whereas values for different forwarding functions can have range very much different from each other and these values are not even comparable with each other. Holding time calculated with these forwarding functions has very abrupt fluctuations for different depth nodes which causes increased delay in some regions and redundant transmission and collision in other depth regions. So there is need to have a relation providing comparable values of holding times. At least one must be able to predict the range of values to be assigned as holding time.