Throughput analysis of some ARQ protocols in the presence of feedback errors

Author

Cam, Richard ; Leung, Cyril

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

45

Issue

1

fYear

1997

fDate

1/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

44

Abstract

Automatic-repeat-request (ARQ) protocols have been analyzed for quite some time, but the issue of errors in the feedback channel has not received much attention. In some applications, such as digital mobile communications, this issue can be important. Accordingly, this paper examines the effect of feedback errors on the throughputs of the stop-and-wait (SW), go-back-N (GBN), and selective repeat (SR) ARQ protocols for the ease of a point-to-point channel under some feedback information assumptions. It is shown that the deleterious effects of feedback errors on the throughputs of continuous (e.g., GBN and SR) ARQ protocols can be greatly reduced by a simple modification in the retransmission operation, provided that the “complete state” of the receiver is sent back with each acknowledgment

Keywords

automatic repeat request; digital communication; mobile communication; packet switching; protocols; ARQ protocols; GBN; automatic repeat request; digital mobile communications; feedback channel; feedback errors; feedback information; go-back-N ARQ; packet transmission; point to point channel; retransmission operation modification; selective repeat ARQ; stop and wait ARQ; throughput analysis; Automatic repeat request; Bandwidth; Error analysis; Land mobile radio; Mobile communication; Performance analysis; Protocols; State feedback; Strontium; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.554284

Filename

554284