Related papers: CLARQ: A Dynamic ARQ Solution for Ultra-high Close…
Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) has been considered as one of the three new application scenarios in the \emph{5th Generation} (5G) \emph {New Radio} (NR), where the physical layer design aspects have been specified. With…
The deployment of multi-access edge computing (MEC) is paving the way towards pervasive intelligence in future 6G networks. This new paradigm also proposes emerging requirements of dependable communications, which goes beyond the…
This paper reviews the state of the art channel coding techniques for ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC). The stringent requirements of URLLC services, such as ultra-high reliability and low latency, have made it the most…
Inspired by several delay-bounded mission-critical applications, optimizing the end-to-end reliability of multi-hop networks is an important problem subject to end-to-end delay constraints on the packets. Towards that direction, Automatic…
Ultra-reliability and low-latency are pivotal requirements of the new 6th generation of communication systems (xURLLC). Over the past years, to increase throughput, adaptive active antennas were introduced in advanced wireless…
We investigate Early Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (E-HARQ) feedback schemes enhanced by machine learning techniques as a path towards ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). To this end, we propose machine learning methods…
In modern communication systems with feedback, there are increasingly more scenarios where the transmitter has much less power than the receiver (e.g., medical implant devices), which we refer to as noise-asymmetric channels. For such…
This paper develops a novel framework for sharing secret keys using the Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) protocol. We first characterize the underlying information theoretic limits, under different assumptions on the channel spatial and…
The trade-off between reliability, latency, and energy efficiency is a central problem in communication systems. Advanced hybrid automated repeat request (HARQ) techniques reduce retransmissions required for reliable communication but incur…
6G networks are composed of subnetworks expected to meet ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) requirements for mission-critical applications such as industrial control and automation. An often-ignored aspect in URLLC is…
This paper studies the effect of optimal power allocation on the performance of communication systems utilizing automatic repeat request (ARQ). Considering Type-I ARQ, the problem is cast as the minimization of the outage probability…
Hybrid Automatic ReQuest (HARQ) protocol enables reliable communications in wireless systems. Usually, several parallel streams are sent in successive timeslots following a time-sharing approach. Recently, multi-layer HARQ has been proposed…
The dynamic scheduling of ultra-reliable and low-latency traffic (URLLC) in the uplink can significantly enhance the efficiency of coexisting services, such as enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) devices, by only allocating resources when…
Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) is a high performance communication protocol, leading to effective use of the wireless channel and the resources with only limited feedback about the channel state information (CSI) to the transmitter.…
We consider the problem of resource allocation in a wireless cellular network, in which nodes have both open and private information to be transmitted to the base station over block fading uplink channels. We develop a cross-layer solution,…
In this paper, we address the discrete-time average consensus problem in strongly connected directed graphs, where nodes exchange information over unreliable error-prone communication links. We enhance the Robustified Ratio Consensus…
This letter studies the power-limited throughput of a communication system utilizing incremental redundancy (INR) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ). We use some recent results on the achievable rates of finite-length codes to analyze…
5G New Radio (NR) is expected to support new ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) service targeting at supporting the small packets transmissions with very stringent latency and reliability requirements. Current Long Term…
This paper presents a novel opportunistic spectrum sharing scheme that applies ARQ protocol to achieve ultra reliability in the finite blocklength regime. A primary user shares its licensed spectrum to a secondary user, where both…
We study short-packet communications, subject to latency and reliability constraints, under the premises of limited frequency diversity and no time diversity. The question addressed is whether, and when, hybrid automatic repeat request…