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