Stability of acknowledgement-based schemes

Some background papers

• F.P. Kelly (1985). Stochastic models of computer communication systems (with discussion). J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B47, 379-395, 415-428.
• D. Aldous (1987). Ultimate instability of exponential back-off protocol for acknowledgement-based transmission control of random access communication channels. IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory 33, 219-223.
• F.P. Kelly and I.M. MacPhee (1987). The number of packets transmitted by collision detect random access schemes. Annals of Probability 15, 1557-1568.
• Congestion Avoidance and Control, Van Jacobson and Michael J. Karels. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM '88, 314-329.