Soft Combining ARQ Techniques for Wireless Systems Employing SC-FDE Schemes

This paper considers the use of SC-FDE techniques (single-carrier with frequency-domain equalization) with low-complexity soft combining ARQ schemes (automatic repeat request). With our technique, packets associated to different transmission attempts are combined in a soft way, allowing improved performances. Moreover, the transmitter and receiver complexities are low and we can have excellent performances, especially when we have deep fading effects in slow-varying channels. By combining the advantages of SC-FDE schemes with soft combining ARQ, the proposed technique is particularly interesting for the uplink of wireless systems.