Reliability Evaluations of Hybrid ARQ Policies for a Data Communication System
Kazumi Yasui, Toshio Nakagawa, Mitsuhiro Imaizumi · International Journal of Reliability Quality and Safety Engineering · 1998
The data transmission fails due to errors which have been generated by disconnections, noises and distortions in a communication line. To protect such failures, the following three schemes of error-control procedures are mainly used : (i) automatic-repeat-request (ARQ), (ii) forward-error-correction (FEC) and (iii) hybrid ARQ which combines FEC with ARQ. This paper proposes two stochastic models of hybrid ARQ policies with retransmission number K and response time T, and derives the mean times to success of data transmission. Comparing the mean times with each other, we discuss analytically which policy is better. These results are also evaluated in numerical examples.