Contention resolution in multiple-access channels: k-selection in radio networks

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Fernández Anta;Miguel A. Mosteiro

  • Affiliations:
  • LADyR, GSyC, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain;LADyR, GSyC, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain and Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'10 Proceedings of the 16th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, contention resolution among k contenders on a multipleaccess channel is explored. The problem studied has been modeled as a k- Selection in Radio Networks, in which every contender has to have exclusive access at least once to a shared communication channel. The randomized adaptive protocol presented shows that, for a probability of error 2e, all the contenders get access to the channel in time (e+1+ξ)k+O(log2(1/ε)), where ε ≤ 1/(n+1), ξ 0 is any constant arbitrarily close to 0, and n is the total number of potential contenders. The above time complexity is asymptotically optimal for any significant ε. The protocol works even if the number of contenders k is unknown and collisions can not be detected.