In this paper, a dynamic-hybrid automatic repeat request (D-HARQ) scheme with guaranteed delay performance is proposed. As opposed to the conventional HARQ that the maximum number of re-transmissions, L, is fixed, in the proposed scheme packets can be retransmitted more times given that the previous packet was received with less than L re-transmissions. The dynamic of the proposed scheme is analyzed using the Markov model. For delay-sensitive applications, the proposed scheme shows superior performance in terms of packet error rate compared with the conventional HARQ and Fixed re-transmission schemes when the channel state information is not available at the transmitter. We further show that D-HARQ achieves a higher throughput compared with the conventional HARQ and fixed re-transmission schemes under the same reliability constraint.
@article{arxiv.1911.01684,
title = {Dynamic HARQ with Guaranteed Delay},
author = {Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam and Hossein Khayami and Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.01684},
year = {2019}
}