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