A cross layer analysis of harq protocols in wireless networks

This work studies the potential improvements in terms of energy efficiency and throughput of a hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) mechanism. The analysis includes both the physical (PHY) and medium access (MAC) layers. We investigate the trade-off provided by HARQ, which demands reduced...

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Autor: Burich, Mariano Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UTFPR (da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (RIUT))
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.utfpr.edu.br:1/2570
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/2570
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Energia - Consumo
Energia elétrica - Distribuição
IEEE 802.11 (Normas)
Redes locais sem fio
Engenharia elétrica
Energy consumption
Electric power distribution
IEEE 802.11 (Standards)
Wireless LANs
Electric engineering
CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA ELETRICA::TELECOMUNICACOES::SISTEMAS DE TELECOMUNICACOES
Engenharia Elétrica
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Sumario:This work studies the potential improvements in terms of energy efficiency and throughput of a hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) mechanism. The analysis includes both the physical (PHY) and medium access (MAC) layers. We investigate the trade-off provided by HARQ, which demands reduced transmit power for a given target outage probability at the cost of more accesses to the channel. Since the competition for channel access at the MAC layer is very expensive in terms of energy and delay, our results show that HARQ leads to great performance improvements due to the decrease in the number of contending nodes – a consequence of the reduced required transmit power. Counter-intuitively, our analysis leads to the conclusion that retransmissions may decrease the delay, improving the system performance. Finally, we investigate the optimum values for the number of allowed retransmissions in order to maximize either the throughput or the energy efficiency.