Efficient ARQ schemes for error control of satellite channels
Romano Fantacci · International Journal of Satellite Communications · 1989
Abstract In this paper, the performance of some efficient ARQ schemes which make use of repeated transmissions of the same data block and compound detection are analysed. The repeated transmission of the same data block involves repeated transmission of each symbol of the data block. At the receiving end, compound detection formed of a soft detection jointly with a classical hard detection is performed by using all the received copies of the same symbol. The throughput efficiencies for the proposed ARQ schemes are analytically derived in closed form and optimized with respect to the number of copies to be transmitted for each data block. It will be shown that the optimized ARQ schemes proposed in this paper achieve better performance than classical ARQ schemes, in particular under high error rate conditions.