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We propose a Multi-Channel Pure Collective Aloha (MC-PCA) MAC protocol for asynchronous satellite uplink random access in this paper. The MC-PCA MAC protocol collects a batch of packets before selecting a channel randomly out of a number of channels and transmits these packets sequentially in the selected channel at one go. The key idea in the design of this proposed MC-PCA MAC protocol is to spread...