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Goldberg, Leslie Ann, Jerrum, Mark, Kannan, Sampath and Paterson, Michael S. (2000) A bound on the capacity of backoff and acknowledgement-based protocols. University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science. (Department of Computer Science research report). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
We study contention-resolution protocols for multiple-access channels. We show that every backoff protocol is transient if the arrival rate, lambda, is at least 0.42 and that the capacity of every backoff protocol is at most 0.42. Thus, we show that backoff protocols have (provably) smaller capacity than full-sensing protocols. Finally, we show that the corresponding results, with the larger arrival bound of 0.531, also hold for every acknowledgement-based protocol.
| Item Type: | Report | ||||
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Data transmission systems, Contention resolution protocols (Computer network protocols) | ||||
| Series Name: | Department of Computer Science research report | ||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science | ||||
| Official Date: | 7 January 2000 | ||||
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| Number: | Number 365 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 21 | ||||
| DOI: | CS-RR-365 | ||||
| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Department of Computer Science | ||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF), European Strategic Programme of Research and Development in Information Technology (ESPRIT) | ||||
| Grant number: | GR/L60982 (EPSRC), CCR9820885 (NSF), ALCOM-FT (ESPRIT), RAND-APX (ESPRIT) | ||||
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