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This paper presents a decentralized relay selection protocol for a dense wireless network and describes channel feedback strategies that improve its performance. The proposed selection protocol supports hybrid automatic-repeat-request…
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an emerging key technology for the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond wireless communication systems to provide more robust and reliable communication links. In this paper, we propose a mixed dual-hop…
This work considers downlink incremental redundancy Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (IR-HARQ) over unreliable feedback channels. Since the impact of positive feedback (i.e., ACK) error is smaller than that of negative feedback (i.e., NACK)…
The heterogeneous wireless networks where coexistence of different Radio access technology (RAT) are widely deployed for various services and support various traffic demand, channel allocation. Under heterogeneous wireless networks, a user…
We propose two schemes for selective-repeat ARQ protocols over packet erasure channels with unreliable feedback: (i) a hybrid ARQ protocol with soft combining at the receiver, and (ii) a coded ARQ protocol, by building on the uncoded…
Considering the widespread use of effective capacity in cross-layer design and the extensive existence of renewal service processes in communication networks, this paper thoroughly investigates the effective capacity for renewal processes.…
High-fidelity, real-time interactive applications are envisioned with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and tactile Internet by means of ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). Exploiting time diversity for fulfilling…
This paper studies the performance of hybrid radio-frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) links assuming perfect channel state information (CSI) at the receiver. Considering the cases with and without hybrid automatic repeat request…
This paper presents a cross-layer approach to jointly design adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) at the physical layer and cooperative truncated automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol at the data link layer. We first derive an exact…
We investigate the asynchronous multiple user access communication in optical wireless scattering communication, where different users transmit signals without perfect alignment in the time domain. Firstly, we characterize the received…
Scheduling of the transmission of status updates over an error-prone communication channel is studied in order to minimize the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the destination, under an average resource constraint at the source…
Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications under dense urban environments usually experience severe keyhole fading effect, especially for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channels, which degrades the capacity and outage performance due to the…
The growing demand for stringent quality of service (QoS) guarantees in 5G networks requires accurate characterisation of delay performance, often measured using Delay Violation Probability (DVP) for a given target delay. Widely used…
This paper thoroughly investigates the performance of variable-rate hybrid automatic repeat request with incremental redundancy (HARQ-IR) over Beckmann fading channels, where Beckmann channel model is used to characterize the impacts of…
The surge of data traffic in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) places a significant challenge on limited wireless resources. Semantic communication, which transmits essential semantics of the raw data, offers a promising solution by…
We study incremental redundancy hybrid ARQ (IR-HARQ) schemes based on punctured, finite-length, LDPC codes. The transmission is assumed to take place over time varying binary erasure channels, such as mobile wireless channels at the…
This paper introduces hybrid automatic repeat request with incremental redundancy (HARQ-IR) to boost the reliability of short packet communications. The finite blocklength information theory and correlated decoding events tremendously…
Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for improving transmission efficiency and task-level reliability, yet most existing reliability-enhancement approaches rely on retransmission strategies driven by semantic fidelity…
We analyze the opportunistic relaying based on HARQ transmission over the block-fading channel with absence of channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter nodes. We assume that both the source and the relay are allowed to vary their…
The Release 16 completion unlocks the road to an exciting phase pertain to the sixth generation (6G) era. Meanwhile, to sustain far-reaching applications with unprecedented challenges in terms of latency and reliability, much interest is…