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CCR
2008
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Removing exponential backoff from TCP
The well-accepted wisdom is that TCP's exponential backoff mechanism, introduced by Jacobson 20 years ago, is essential for preserving the stability of the Internet. In this ...
Amit Mondal, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
ESA
2006
Springer
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Contention Resolution with Heterogeneous Job Sizes
Abstract. We study the problem of contention resolution for differentsized jobs on a simple channel. When a job makes a run attempt, it learns only whether the attempt succeeded or...
Michael A. Bender, Jeremy T. Fineman, Seth Gilbert
LCN
2006
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Analysis of Exponential Backoff with Multipacket Reception in Wireless Networks
A collision resolution scheme is essential to the performance of a random-access wireless network. Most schemes employ exponential backoff (EB) to adjust the transmission attempt ...
Peng Xuan Zheng, Ying Jun Zhang, Soung Chang Liew