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On the instability of slotted ALOHA multiaccess algorithm |
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| Authors: | Rosenkrantz W Towsley D |
| Affiliation: | Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA; |
| Abstract: | The slotted ALOHA multiaccess algorithm for the infinite user model is shown to be unstable via a martingale method of independent interest. Consequently, the hypothesis of statistical equilibrium used to calculate the maximum throughput is not valid. |
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