A cross layer design of packet level STBC combined with Hybrid ARQ algorithms for multicast communications in UMTS networks

WSEAS Transactions on Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1591-1598

  Papadopoulos, George D ^a   Pavlidou, Fotini Niovi ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cross layer design; Hybrid ARQ algorithms; MIMO; Multicast communications; Packet FEC; Packet STBC; UMTS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); PACKET SWITCHING; RAYLEIGH FADING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

CROSS LAYER DESIGN; HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (HARQ); MULTICAST COMMUNICATIONS; PACKET-DATA TRANSMISSION SCHEME; RADIO LINK CONTROL (RLC); SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING (SBTC);

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747059056     PISSN: 11092742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS): Architecture and functional description, 3GPP Std. TS 23.246 v6.8.0, 2005.
2. J. Nonnenmacher, E. Biersack, and D. Towsley, Parity-Based Loss Recovery for Reliable Multicast Transmission, IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, Vol.6, No.4, 1998, pp. 349-361.
3. S. M. Alamouti, A Simple Transmit Diversity Technique for Wireless Communications, IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., Vol.16, No.8, 1998, pp. 1451-1458.
4. V. Tarokh, H. Jafarkhami, and A. R. Calderbank, Space-Time Block Coding for Wireless Communications: Performance Results, IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., Vol.17, No.3, 1999, pp. 451-460.
5. D. Gesbert, M. Shafi, D.-S. Shiu, P. J. Smith, and A. Naguib, From Theory to Practice: An Overview of MIMO Space-Time Coded Wireless Systems, IEEE J. Select. Areas Commun., Vol.21, No.3, 2003, pp. 281-302.
6. A. Maaref and S. Aissa, Combined adaptive modulation and truncated ARQ for packet data transmission in MIMO systems, Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2004 (GLOBECOM'04), Dallas, Texas, USA, Nov. 2004, pp. 3818-3822.
7. G. Femenias, Adaptive SR-ARQ combined with STBC in Markov channels, IEE Electron. Letters, Vol.40, No.6, 2004, pp.77-378.
8. A.L. Toledo and X. Wang, Effect of MIMO wireless channels on TCP, Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2004 (WCNC'04), Vol.3, 2004, pp. 1867-1872.
9. George D. Papadopoulos and F.-N. Pavlidou, Packet Level STBC Combined with Hybrid ARQ for Multicast Communications in UMTS Networks, Proc. of 10th WSEAS International Conference on Communications 2006, Vouliagmeni, Greece, July 2006.
10. George D. Papadopoulos, Georgios Koltsidas and Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou, Two Hybrid ARQ Algorithms for Reliable Multicast Communications in UMTS Networks, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol.10, No.4, 2006, pp. 260-262.
11. Proakis and M. Salehi, Communication System Engineering. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1994.
12. H. Djandji, An Efficient Hybrid ARQ Protocol for Point-to-Multipoint Communication and its Throughput Performance, IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., Vol.48, No.5, 1999, pp. 1688-1698.
13. C. Huitema, The Case of Packet Level FEC, Proc. of IFIP 5th International Workshop on Protocols for High Speed Networks (PsHSN 1996), INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France, Chapman & Hall, Oct. 1996, pp. 109-120. J. G.
14. C. Q. Yang, E. Hossain, and V. K. Bhargav, On Adaptive Hybrid Error Control in Wireless Networks Using Reed-Solomon Codes, IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., Vol.4, No.3, 2005, pp. 835-840.
15. V. Tarokh, H. Jafarkhami, and A. R. Calderbank, Space-Time Block Codes from Orthogonal Designs, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol.45, No.5, 1999, pp. 1456-1467.
16. L. Hanzo, T. H. Liew, and B. L. Yeap, Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding for Transmission over Fading Channels, England: IEEE Press, John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
17. M. Rossi, F. Fitzek, and M. Zorzi, Error Control Techniques for Efficient Multicast Streaming in UMTS Networks: Proposals and Performance Evaluation, Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2004, Vol.2, No.3
18. M. Rossi, M. Zorzi, and F. Fitzek, Link Layer Algorithms for Efficient Multicast Service Provisioning in 3G Cellular Systems, Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 2004 (GLOBECOM'04), Dallas, Texas, USA, Nov. 2004, pp. 3855-3860.