Performance of a hybrid ARQ scheme for partially reliable transport services
Peter Farkaš, Hans‐Jürgen Zepernick, Tadeusz Antoni Wysocki · 2005
Previously, it was shown that provision of reliable transport services in networks which experience loss of packets can be very costly and hence accepting losses up to a certain level might be considered as an alternative approach. Recently, a family of generalised weighted sum codes (GWSC) for erasure correction was discovered which are attractive candidates to support such a partially reliable transmission. In this paper, we present a new partially reliable hybrid ARQ scheme based on GWSC along with performance estimates. The idea can be used with some other non-binary codes too, for example Reed-Solomon codes.