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ICALP
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Bound on the Capacity of Backoff and Acknowledgement-Based Protocols
We study contention-resolution protocols for multiple-access channels. We show that every backoff protocol is transient if the arrival rate, , is at least 0.42 and that the capaci...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Mark Jerrum, Sampath Kannan, ...