We study contention-resolution protocols for multiple-access channels. We show that every backoff protocol is transient if the arrival rate, , is at least 0.42 and that the capaci...
Leslie Ann Goldberg, Mark Jerrum, Sampath Kannan, ...
Abstract. In this article we present a conceptual analysis of the notion of learners’ selforganization in CSCL macro-scripts. We highlight that taking into account selforganizati...
We study, from the competitive analysis perspective, the trade off between communication cost and delay cost (or simply the sendor-wait dilemma) on a hierarchy (rooted tree). The p...