TITLE:
Random Access Algorithms in Packet Networks—A Review of Three Research Decades
AUTHORS:
A. T. Burrell, P. Papantoni-Kazakos
KEYWORDS:
Random Access; Packet Networks; Channel Sensing; Throughput and Delay Analysis; Sensitivity to Feedback Errors; Limit Poisson User Model
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.5 No.10,
October
31,
2012
ABSTRACT: We present a coherent and systematic review of Random Access Algorithms for packet networks, as developed over three and a half decades. We consider the appropriate user models and we classify the algorithms according to the channel sensing constraints imposed. We also present a review of the analytical methodologies required for the performance analysis of these algorithms.