New Go-Back-N ARQ Protocols for Point-to-Multipoint Communications

Hui ZHAO  Toru SATO  Iwane KIMURA  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E77-B   No.8   pp.1013-1022
Publication Date: 1994/08/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Communication Theory
Keyword: 
communication theory,  satellite communication,  point-to-multipoint communication,  error detection codes,  go-back-N ARQ,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents new go-back-N ARQ protocols for point-to-multipoint communications over broadcast channels such as satellite or broadcast radio channels. In the conventional go-back-N ARQ protocols for multidestination communications, usually only error detection codes are used for error detection and m copies of a frame are transmitted at a time. In one of our protocols, a bit-by-bit majority-voting decoder based on all of the m copies of a frame is used to recover the transmitted frame. In another protocol, a hybrid-ARQ protocol, which is an error detection code concatenated with a rate repetition convolutional code with the Viterbi decoding, is used. In these protocols, a dynamic programming technique is used to select the optimal number of copies of a frame to be transmitted at a time. The optimal number is determined by round trip propagation delay of the channel, the error probability, and the number of receivers that have not yet received the message. Analytic expressions are derived for the throughput efficiency of the proposed protocols. The proposed point-to-multipoint protocols provide satisfactory throughput efficiency and perform considerably better than the conventional protocols under high error rate conditions, especially in environments with a large number of receivers and large link round trips. In this paper we analyze the performances of the proposed protocols upon the random error channel conditions.