Related papers: On Timely Channel Coding with Hybrid ARQ
A status updating system is considered in which a variable length code is used to transmit messages to a receiver over a noisy channel. The goal is to optimize the codewords lengths such that successfully-decoded messages are timely. That…
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…
Delivering timely status updates in a timeliness-critical communication system is of paramount importance to assist accurate and efficient decision making. Therefore, the topic of analyzing Age of Information has aroused new research…
In this work, we investigate a coding strategy devised to increase the throughput in hybrid ARQ (HARQ) transmission over block fading channel. In our approach, the transmitter jointly encodes a variable number of bits for each round of…
The time average expected age of information (AoI) is studied for status updates sent over an error-prone channel from an energy-harvesting transmitter with a finite-capacity battery. Energy cost of sensing new status updates is taken into…
This paper studies the tradeoff between channel coding and ARQ (automatic repeat request) in Rayleigh block-fading channels. A heavily coded system corresponds to a low transmission rate with few ARQ re-transmissions, whereas lighter coding…
The existing ARQ schemes (including a hybrid ARQ) have a throughput depending on packet error probability. In this paper we describe a strategy for delay tolerant applications which provide a constant throughput until the algorithm…
In this paper, we examine a status updating system where updates generated by the source are sent to the monitor through an erasure channel. We assume each update consists of $k$ symbols and the symbol erasure in each time slot follows an…
Using an age of information (AoI) metric, we examine the transmission of coded updates through a binary erasure channel to a monitor/receiver. We start by deriving the average status update age of an infinite incremental redundancy (IIR)…
We consider a wireless communication network with an adaptive scheme to select the number of packets to be admitted and encoded for each transmission, and characterize the information timeliness. For a network of erasure channels and…
This paper investigates the information freshness of two-hop networks. Age of information (AoI) is used as the metric to characterize the information freshness, defined as the time elapsed since the latest received status update was…
In this paper, novel cooperative automatic repeat request (ARQ) methods with network coding are proposed for two way relaying network. Upon a failed transmission of a packet, the network enters cooperation phase, where the retransmission of…
In this paper, we consider a three node relay network comprising a source, a relay, and a destination. The source transmits the message to the destination using hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) with incremental redundancy (IR). The…
In this paper, we investigate the impact of coding on the Age of Information (AoI) in a two-user broadcast symbol erasure channel with feedback. We assume each update consists of $K$ symbols and the source is able to broadcast one symbol in…
In this paper, we study a system in which a sensor forwards status updates to a receiver through an error-prone channel, while the receiver sends the transmission results back to the sensor via a reliable channel. Both channels are subject…
Hybrid-ARQ protocols have become common in many packet transmission systems due to their incorporation in various standards. Hybrid-ARQ combines the normal automatic repeat request (ARQ) method with error correction codes to increase…
Motivated by streaming applications with stringent delay constraints, we consider the design of online network coding algorithms with timely delivery guarantees. Assuming that the sender is providing the same data to multiple receivers over…
A status updating system is considered in which multiple data sources generate packets to be delivered to a destination through a shared energy harvesting sensor. Only one source's data, when available, can be transmitted by the sensor at a…
Scheduling the transmission of time-sensitive data to multiple users over error-prone communication channels is studied with the goal of minimizing the long-term average age of information (AoI) at the users under a constraint on the…
In this work, we propose a coding strategy designed to enhance the throughput of hybrid ARQ (HARQ) transmissions over i.i.d. block-fading channels with the channel state information (CSI) unknown at the transmitter. We use a joint packet…