Coding versus ARQ in fading Channels: How reliable should the PHY be?

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3363-3374

  Wu, Peng ^a   Jindal, Nihar ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

ARQ; coding; outage probability; reliability

Indexed keywords

ARQ; AUTOMATIC REPEAT REQUEST; BLOCK FADING CHANNEL; CHANNEL DIVERSITY; CHANNEL PARAMETER; CODED SYSTEM; CODING; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; DELAY CONSTRAINTS; ERROR PROBABILITIES; FEEDBACK ERROR; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PACKET ERROR PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH; RETRANSMISSIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; TRANSMISSION RATES;

CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 84655161277     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2011.102011.100152     Document Type: Article

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