1 @article{aldous1987uie,
2 title={{Ultimate instability of exponential back-off protocol for acknowledgment-based transmission control of random access communication channels}},
3 author={Aldous, David},
4 journal={Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on},
5 volume={Bogus.},
6 number={4},
7 pages={219--223},
8 year=1987,
9 note={This is in fact a rather funny read since ethernet works well in practice. The {\em pre} reference is the right one, however.}
10 }