Asymptotic Analysis of Contention Resolution ALOHA with Replica Concatenation

Abstract

In this paper, we present an asymptotic performance analysis of contention resolution ALOHA (CRA) on the collision channel for both regular and irregular repetition rates. In addition, we consider an improvement to CRA by merging the clean parts of replicas in partial collisions and extend our analysis to this scenario. Specific designs of repetition distributions based on the new analysis show that the optimized solutions for irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) perform well in both CRA and the enhanced scheme.