— This paper reverse-engineers backoff-based random-access MAC protocols in ad-hoc networks. We show that the contention resolution algorithm in such protocols is implicitly part...
Jang-Won Lee, Ao Tang, Jianwei Huang, Mung Chiang,...
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R. Dean Malmgren, Jake M. Hofman, Luis A. N. Amara...
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In languages that use diacritical characters, if these special signs are stripped-off from a word, the resulted string of characters may not exist in the language, and therefore i...