Performance analysis of general backoff protocols

In this paper, we analyze backoff protocols, such as the one used in Ethernet. We examine a general backoff function(GBF) rather than just the binary exponential backoff (BEB) used by Ethernet. Under some mild assumptions we find stability and optimality conditions for a wide class of backoff protoc...

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Main Author: Andrei Gurtov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Croatian Communications and Information Society (CCIS) 2008-03-01
Series:Journal of Communications Software and Systems
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Online Access:https://jcomss.fesb.unist.hr/index.php/jcomss/article/view/233