Capacity of Time-Slotted ALOHA Packetized Multiple-Access Systems Over the AWGN Channel

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 486-499

  Médard, Muriel ^a   Huang, Jianyi ^b   Goldsmith, Andrea J ^c   Meyn, Sean P ^b   Coleman, Todd P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

ALOHA; Broadcast; Bursty data; Capacity; Coding; Multiple access; Rate splitting

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DATA TRANSFER; DECODING; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

ALOHA; BURST DATA; CODING; MULTIPLE ACCESS; RATE SPLITTING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 2342457026     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2003.821175     Document Type: Article

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