Title
A study of incremental redundancy hybrid ARQ over Markov channel models derived from experimental data
Abstract
In this paper, we process channel Signal-to-Noise-Ratio time series gathered in the proximity of the Pianosa island, Italy, in Summer 2009. These traces are used to model the performance of capacity-achieving code ensembles as employed in an Incremental Redundancy (IR) Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) error control scheme. We apply a code-matched channel state quantization technique aimed at representing channel evolution over time with low quantization error; the evolution of the channel among the quantized states is then represented using a Markov model, over which we base the analytical evaluation of IR-HARQ performance. Results confirm that IR-HARQ consistently improves link performance with respect to Type I HARQ. In addition, we observe that the different channel statistics due to different transmitter and receiver placements, as well as to the acoustic propagation conditions considered in our scenario, have an impact on HARQ performance. This impact is correctly captured by our Markov model, suggesting good adherence of the model to actual channel behaviors. The validation of the models (by simulating over different traces than those used to train the models) suggests that they are robust to moderate non-stationarity, making them good candidates to give a compact representation of the channel behavior, e.g., in network simulators.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1868812.1868816
WUWNET
Keywords
Field
DocType
incremental redundancy hybrid arq,actual channel behavior,type i harq,ir-harq performance,different channel statistic,channel behavior,experimental data,markov channel model,markov model,code-matched channel state quantization,channel evolution,link performance,harq performance,time series,automatic repeat request,analysis,markov models,simulation,hybrid arq,error control,network simulator,quantization error
Hybrid automatic repeat request,Transmitter,Experimental data,Markov model,Simulation,Computer science,Algorithm,Communication channel,Error detection and correction,Quantization (physics),Quantization (signal processing)
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
1.16
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Beatrice Tomasi1335.58
Paolo Casari233432.89
Leonardo Badia338041.92
Michele Zorzi47079736.49