Relative neighborhood graph (RNG) has been widely used in topology control and geographic routing in wireless ad hoc networks. Its maximum edge length is the minimum requirement on the maximum transmission radius by those applications of RNG. In this paper, we derive the precise asymptotic probability distribution of the maximum edge length of the RNG on a Poisson point process over a unit-area disk. Since the maximum RNG edge length is a lower bound on the critical transmission radius for

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... y forward routing, our result also leads to an improved asymptotic almost sure lower bound on the critical transmission radius for greedy forward routing.