Before revision:  Another principle discovered upon regular variation theory is that the backoff times have a truncated Pareto-type tail distribution with an exponent of (\log \gamma)/\log m (m is the multiplicative factor  ).
After revision:  Another principle discovered upon regular variation theory is that the backoff times have a truncated Pareto-type tail distribution with an exponent of (\log \gamma)/\log m (m is the multiplicative factor and \gamma is the collision probability ).