Stability of binary exponential backoff

Journal of the ACM (JACM)

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 579-602

  Goodman, Jonathan ^a   Greenberg, Albert G ^b   Madras, Neal ^c   March, Peter ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - DISTRIBUTED;

ACKNOWLEDGMENT-BASED ALGORITHMS; BINARY EXPONENTIAL BACKOFF; MULTIPLE-ACCESS BROADCAST CHANNEL; PACKET NETWORKS; RETRANSMISSION PROTOCOLS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0024047888     PISSN: 00045411     EISSN: 1557735X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/44483.44488     Document Type: Article

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