Improving wireless TCP throughput by a novel TCM-based hybrid ARQ

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2476-2485

  Huang, Qian ^b   Chan, Sammy ^a,b   Ping, Li ^a,b   Zukerman, Moshe ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ); Performance analysis; Trelliscoded modulation (TCM); Wireless TCP

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MODULATION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TRELLIS CODES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HYBRID AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST (ARQ); PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; TRELLISCODED MODULATION (TCM);

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL;

EID: 34547412412     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.05865     Document Type: Article

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