@InProceedings{zhou_et_al:LIPIcs.FUN.2021.24, author = {Zhou, Qian M. and Calvert, Aiden and Young, Maxwell}, title = {{Singletons for Simpletons: Revisiting Windowed Backoff with Chernoff Bounds}}, booktitle = {10th International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (FUN 2021)}, pages = {24:1--24:19}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-145-0}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {157}, editor = {Farach-Colton, Martin and Prencipe, Giuseppe and Uehara, Ryuhei}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2021.24}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-127859}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.FUN.2021.24}, annote = {Keywords: Chernoff bounds, backoff, contention resolution, algorithms} }