eprintid: 13302 rev_number: 151 eprint_status: archive userid: 596 dir: disk0/00/01/33/02 datestamp: 2008-11-25 16:38:55 lastmod: 2020-06-16 04:31:02 status_changed: 2008-11-25 16:38:55 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Yang, Y creators_name: Yum, TSP title: Delay distributions of slotted ALOHA and CSMA subjects: 8100 divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B04 divisions: C05 keywords: ALOHA, carrier sense multiple access (CSMA), random access protocol abstract: We derive the closed-form delay distributions of slotted ALOHA and nonpersistent carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocols under steady state. Three retransmission policies are analyzed. We find that under a binary exponential backoff retransmission policy, finite average delay and finite delay variance can be guaranteed for G<2S and G<4S/3, respectively, where G is the channel traffic and S is the channel throughput. As an example, in slotted ALOHA, S<(ln2)/2 and S<3(ln4-ln3)/4 are the operating ranges for finite first and second delay moments. In addition, the blocking probability and delay performance as a function of r/sub max/ (maximum number of retransmissions allowed) is also derived. date: 2003-11-01 publisher: IEEE vfaculties: VENG rae2008: 24 oa_status: green primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.819201 lyricists_name: YANG, YANG lyricists_id: YYANG78 full_text_status: public publication: IEEE Transactions on Communications volume: 51 number: 11 pagerange: 1846-1857 refereed: TRUE issn: 0090-6778 citation: Yang, Y; Yum, TSP; (2003) Delay distributions of slotted ALOHA and CSMA. IEEE Transactions on Communications , 51 (11) pp. 1846-1857. 10.1109/TCOMM.2003.819201 <https://doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2003.819201>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/13302/1/13302.pdf