Adaptive Rate Error Control Through the Use of Diversity Combining and Majority-Logic Decoding in a Hybrid-ARQ Protocol

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 380-385

  Wicker, Stephen B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES, SYMBOLIC - DECODING; COMPUTER METATHEORY - MAJORITY LOGIC; DATA TRANSMISSION - PACKET SWITCHING; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ADAPTIVE RATE ERROR CONTROL; AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST; DIVERSITY COMBINING; HYBRID ARQ PROTOCOL; MAJORITY-LOGIC DECODING;

RADIO SYSTEMS, DIVERSITY;

EID: 0026120147     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/26.79277     Document Type: Note

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