Performance analysis of general backoff protocols

Journal of Communications Software and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-21

  Lukyanenko, Andrey ^a   Gurtov, Andrei ^a  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Backoff protocol; Contention resolution; Ethernet; Optimality; Queuing theory; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862851325     PISSN: 18456421     EISSN: 18466079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.24138/jcomss.v4i1.233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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