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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,590 Views
19 Pages

Analytical Model and Feedback Predictor Optimization for Combined Early-HARQ and HARQ

  • Tatiana Rykova,
  • Barış Göktepe,
  • Thomas Schierl,
  • Konstantin Samouylov and
  • Cornelius Hellge

31 August 2021

In order to fulfill the stringent Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) requirements towards Fifth Generation (5G) mobile networks, early-Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (e-HARQ) schemes have been introduced, aimed at providing faster feed...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,947 Views
15 Pages

25 September 2018

Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) techniques are widely employed in the most important wireless systems, e.g., the Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular standard, to increase the reliability of the communication. Despite these schemes have been wid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Emergence of Internet of Things (IoT): Connecting Anything, Anywhere?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,968 Views
20 Pages

Delay-Sensitive NOMA-HARQ for Short Packet Communications

  • Faisal Nadeem,
  • Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam,
  • Yonghui Li and
  • Branka Vucetic

9 July 2021

This paper investigates the two-user uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) paired with the hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in the finite blocklength regime, where the target latency of each user is the priority. To limit the packet deli...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,795 Views
19 Pages

On the Secure Performance of Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted HARQ Systems

  • Yue Wu,
  • Kuanlin Mu,
  • Kaiyu Duan,
  • Shishu Yin and
  • Hongwen Yang

17 March 2023

This paper analyzes the physical layer security performance of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) systems with the assistance of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and aims to reveal the primary factors that enhance PLS. First, closed-form e...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,374 Views
23 Pages

23 December 2025

Free-space optical (FSO) communications represent an attractive technology for future high-capacity wireless and satellite networks, offering multi-Gbps data rates, unlicensed spectrum, and built-in physical-layer security. However, their performance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,190 Views
13 Pages

13 June 2023

To improve the decoding performance of asynchronous sparse code multiple access (SCMA) systems over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channels, this paper proposes a novel windowed joint detection and decoding algorithm for a rate-compatible (RC),...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coding and Entropy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,228 Views
20 Pages

15 April 2022

This paper examines reliable and energy-efficient transmission in low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication systems. In particular, we analyze the link transmission characteristics of the LEO satellite to the ground user and model the channel as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integration of Satellite-Aerial-Terrestrial Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,393 Views
21 Pages

8 November 2020

One of the key challenges for future communication systems is to deal with fast changing channels due to the mobility of users. Having a robust protocol capable of handling transmission failures in unfavorable channel conditions is crucial, but the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,717 Views
18 Pages

Design of Rate-Compatible Parallel Concatenated Punctured Polar Codes for IR-HARQ Transmission Schemes

  • Jian Jiao,
  • Sha Wang,
  • Bowen Feng,
  • Shushi Gu and ,
  • Shaohua Wu and
  • Qinyu Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2017

In this paper, we propose a rate-compatible (RC) parallel concatenated punctured polar (PCPP) codes for incremental redundancy hybrid automatic repeat request (IR-HARQ) transmission schemes, which can transmit multiple data blocks over a time-varying...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
344 Views
22 Pages

19 August 2026

NR sidelink groupcast provides no group channel-quality report, yet one modulation and coding scheme (MCS) must serve every member. We propose PROBE, a reactive MCS adaptation scheme that operates directly on the summarized HARQ outcome. PROBE increa...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
670 Views
33 Pages

1 September 2026

We propose optimal power allocation for a transmitter that operates with either the ARQ-I or CC-HARQ protocol in an interference-limited environment where both the desired and interfering signals experience Rayleigh fading, forming an analytically tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
876 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, the selective combining scheme is proposed for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-employed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with spatial correlations at the receiver. To reduce the computational complexity load during...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,864 Views
18 Pages

Rate Adaption for Secure HARQ-CC System with Multiple Eavesdroppers

  • Yue Wu,
  • Shishu Yin,
  • Jian Zhou,
  • Pei Yang and
  • Hongwen Yang

31 March 2020

In this paper, we studied the secure transmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request with chase combining (HARQ-CC) system, under the existence of multiple eavesdroppers and limited latency. First, we analyzed some critical performance metrics, inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,800 Views
20 Pages

A Hybrid Millimeter-Wave and Free-Space-Optics Communication Architecture with Adaptive Diversity Combining and HARQ Techniques

  • Yinjun Liu,
  • Xiaochuan Tan,
  • Junlian Jia,
  • Boyu Dong and ,
  • Changle Huang,
  • Penghao Luo,
  • Jianyang Shi,
  • Nan Chi and
  • Junwen Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

29 November 2023

We propose and demonstrate a hybrid communication architecture that combines millimeter-wave (MMW) in the radio frequency (RF) domain and free-space-optics (FSO) technologies using adaptive combining and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) techniq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coherent Transmission Systems in Optical Wireless Communication)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,213 Views
17 Pages

Layered HARQ Design for LDPC-Based Multi-Level Coded Modulation

  • Yuejun Wei,
  • Yue Chen,
  • Chunqi Chen,
  • Bin Xia and
  • Liandong Wang

13 June 2025

Multi-level coded modulation (MLCM) enhances data transmission by allocating error correction more effectively to bits with higher error probabilities, thus optimizing redundancy and improving performance. Despite MLCM’s advantages over traditi...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,680 Views
19 Pages

3 October 2023

V2X communication is susceptible to attenuation and fading caused by external interference. This interference often leads to bit error and poor quality and stability of the wireless link, and it can easily disrupt packet transmission. In order to enh...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,868 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2017

A new hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme for multicast service for wireless sensor networks is proposed in this study. In the proposed algorithm, the HARQ operation is combined with an autonomous retransmission method that ensure a data pa...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,301 Views
13 Pages

RETRACTED: Efficient Modulation Scheme for Intermediate Relay-Aided IoT Networks

  • Waleed Shahjehan,
  • Shahid Bashir,
  • Saleem Latteef Mohammed,
  • Ahmed Bashar Fakhri and ,
  • Adeniyi Adebayo Isaiah,
  • Imran Khan and
  • Peerapong Uthansakul
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 March 2020

With the surge of ubiquitous demand for high-complexity and quality mobile Internet-of-things (IoT) services, new cooperative relaying paradigms have emerged. Motivated by the long and unpredictable end-to-end communication in relay-aided IoT network...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,222 Views
17 Pages

Raptor-like Coded Broadcasting for Efficient V2X Communications

  • Zuolin Jin,
  • Huan Li,
  • Jingxuan Huang,
  • Xinyi Wang and ,
  • Zhiyuan Tan,
  • Pengpeng Dong and
  • Zesong Fei
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 September 2023

Broadcasting is a critical feature in V2X communication, allowing for the simultaneous dissemination of safety-critical messages to all nearby vehicles. However, the requirement for low latency in information dissemination and the need for reliable a...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,942 Views
31 Pages

Enhancing Prediction by Incorporating Entropy Loss in Volatility Forecasting

  • Renaldas Urniezius,
  • Rytis Petrauskas,
  • Vygandas Vaitkus,
  • Javid Karimov and ,
  • Kestutis Brazauskas,
  • Jolanta Repsyte,
  • Egle Kacerauskiene,
  • Torsten Harms,
  • Jovita Dargiene and
  • Darius Ezerskis
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

28 July 2025

In this paper, we propose examining Heterogeneous Autoregressive (HAR) models using five different estimation techniques and four different estimation horizons to decide which performs better in terms of forecasting accuracy. Several different estima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Explaining Economic and Social Science Phenomena Through Physical Models, Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Views
34 Pages

Memory-Based Predictive Resource Allocation for NR-V2X Traffic

  • Nurgüneş Yordanov and
  • Bülent Çavuşoğlu

New Radio Vehicle-to-Everything (NR-V2X) safety scheduling is difficult because burst episodes increase urgent arrivals, lower transmission success, and create retransmissions that compete for future slots. A scheduler that waits for the visible queu...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,187 Views
23 Pages

A Channel-Sensing-Based Multipath Multihop Cooperative Transmission Mechanism for UE Aggregation in Asymmetric IoE Scenarios

  • Hua-Min Chen,
  • Ruijie Fang,
  • Shoufeng Wang,
  • Zhuwei Wang and ,
  • Yanhua Sun and
  • Yu Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 September 2024

With the continuous progress and development of technology, the Internet of Everything (IoE) is gradually becoming a research hotspot. More companies and research institutes are focusing on the connectivity and transmission between multiple devices i...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,631 Views
23 Pages

In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiple automatic repeat request (ARQ) systems, multiple streams with independent hybrid ARQ (HARQ) processes can be simultaneously sent. Thus, the interference from other streams can affect future retransmis...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,797 Views
24 Pages

8 November 2013

Due to its efficiency, reliability and better channel and resource utilization, cooperative transmission technologies have been attractive options in underwater as well as terrestrial sensor networks. Their performance can be further improved if merg...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
500 Views
30 Pages

Predictive Semantic-Aware Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request for Reliable and Efficient 6G Communications

  • Osman Kaya,
  • Muhammet Ali Karabulut,
  • Can Eyüpoğlu and
  • Oktay Karakuş

29 September 2026

Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) remains the backbone of link-layer reliability, yet it was designed for a setting in which every bit matters equally and the channel of the next slot is unknown. Neither assumption holds in semantic communicatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,196 Views
13 Pages

4 February 2022

Satellites in low earth orbit (LEO) are currently being deployed for numerous communication, positioning, space and Earth-imaging missions. To provide higher data rates in direct-to-user links and earth observation downlinks, the free-space optics te...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Wireless Communications Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
10,956 Views
22 Pages

This paper offers a review of different types of Error Correction Scheme (ECS) used in communication systems in general, which is followed by a summary of the IEEE standard for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). The possible types of channels and net...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Empowering eHealth with Smart Internet of Things (IoT) Medical Devices)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,920 Views
36 Pages

Opportunities and Challenges for Error Control Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review

  • Rajan Kadel,
  • Krishna Paudel,
  • Deepani B. Guruge and
  • Sharly J. Halder

Error Correction Schemes (ECSs) significantly contribute to enhancing reliability and energy efficiency of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This review paper offers an overview of the different types of ECS used in communication systems and a synopsi...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,115 Views
42 Pages

Cross Layer Optimization Using AI/ML-Assisted Federated Edge Learning in 6G Networks

  • Spyridon Louvros,
  • AnupKumar Pandey,
  • Brijesh Shah and
  • Yashesh Buch

30 January 2026

This paper introduces a novel methodology that integrates 6G wireless Federated Edge Learning (FEEL) frameworks with MAC to PHY cross layer optimization strategies. In the context of mobile edge computing, typically ensuring robust channel estimation...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
1,774 Views
6 Pages

Gastroesophageal Reflux and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Prospective Study

  • Ahmed Fahim,
  • Peter W. Dettmar,
  • Alyn H. Morice and
  • Simon P. Hart

23 April 2011

Background and Objective. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. There is evidence of the increased prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease in patients with IPF. The aim of this prospec...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
565 Views
16 Pages

Research on Retransmission and Combining Techniques in Power Line Communication Systems

  • Hongguang Dai,
  • Jinlei Chen,
  • Yajing Hu,
  • Xiaolei Li and
  • Wenhan Zhang

Power Line Communication (PLC) utilizes the existing power line infrastructure for data transmission and offers the advantage of low deployment costs. However, the PLC channel is subject to a highly complex network topology, frequent load variations,...