On the average rate performance of Hybrid-ARQ in quasi-static fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3339-3352

  Shen, Cong ^a   Liu, Tie ^b   Fitz, Michael P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel state information (CSI); Fading channels; Hybrid ARQ (HARQ); Incremental redundancy; Throughput

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE RATE; FADING DISTRIBUTION; HIGH SNR; HYBRID ARQ; INCREMENTAL REDUNDANCY; LIMITED FEEDBACK; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; OPTIMAL POWER ALLOCATION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; POWER ALLOCATIONS; QUASI-STATIC FADING CHANNELS; RATE ASSIGNMENT; RETRANSMISSIONS; SIMULATION RESULT; SINGLE LAYER;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHANNEL STATE INFORMATION; COMMUNICATION; FADING (RADIO); OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 77957701215     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.11.080072     Document Type: Article

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