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—IEEE 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) uses a binary exponential backoff algorithm to arbitrate simultaneous channel access by multiple stations. When a station sen...
Abstract. We study the problem of contention resolution for differentsized jobs on a simple channel. When a job makes a run attempt, it learns only whether the attempt succeeded or...
Michael A. Bender, Jeremy T. Fineman, Seth Gilbert
We analyze the behavior of the Ethernet in networks with a small number of active stations, and describe what is known as the Ethernet capture effect, where a station transmits co...