Title
Packet Centric vs. Radio Centric Link Layer Approaches: A Quantitative Analysis
Abstract
A well-known concept to adapt the transmitted pay- load to the current channel capacity is to perforin segmentation of the uncoded user payload. A new cross layer approach to hybrid ARQ was introduced that performs first channel coding and then segmentation of coded bits. In this paper, we denote the traditional approach as radio centric, while the latter is denoted as packet centric. By changing the order of coding and segmentation, it is possible to overcome the conflicting first requirements of link adaptation and hybrid ARQ in terms of packet size. Although the packet centric concept is not introduced here for the first time, a detailed performance analysis has been lacking so far. This paper presents a study that explores the characteristics of the packet centric approach in more detail and provides performance results and a comparison with the traditional approach. The new method is compared to the radio centric approach by means of a theoretical model and a cellular network simulator. It is shown that users with a weak channel can benefit from the former, leading to some gain in capacity.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/VETECF.2007.74
2007 IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
radio centric link layer approaches,quantitative analysis,channel capacity,hybrid ARQ,channel coding,link adaptation,packet centric approach,cellular network simulator
Link adaptation,Hybrid automatic repeat request,Packet segmentation,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Communication channel,Link layer,Electronic engineering,Automatic repeat request,Channel capacity
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1090-3038
978-1-4244-0263-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Rossetto110611.72
Michael Meyer29512.55
Michele Zorzi37079736.49