ARQ PROTOCOLS WITH ADAPTIVE BLOCK SIZE PERFORM BETTER OVER A WIDE-RANGE OF BIT ERROR RATES

被引:25
作者
MARTINS, JAC
ALVES, JD
机构
[1] Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Aveiro
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D O I
10.1109/26.57462
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
The throughput of conventional ARQ protocols, such as the stop-and-wait, go-back-TV, and selective repeat, can be improved by dynamically adapting the protocol block length so that it approaches the optimum value for varying channel bit error rates. A very simple algorithm to implement such an adaptive scheme is presented here. The algorithm assumes a known block error rate, estimates the bit error rate and determines the best block length. Results of a simulation study show that in spite of its simplicity, the algorithm performs remarkably well. © 1990 IEEE
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