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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)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Weihang Ding , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Sravan Kumar Ankireddy , S. Ashwin Hebbar , Yihan Jiang , Hyeji Kim , Pramod Viswanath

We develop a coordinated hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) approach. With the proposed scheme, if a user message is correctly decoded in the first HARQ rounds, its spectrum is allocated to other users, to improve the network outage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Behrooz Makki , Tommy Svensson , Thomas Eriksson , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Consider a discrete-time Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem solved using policy gradient descent when the system matrices are unknown. The gradient is transmitted across a noisy channel over a finite time horizon using analog…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Ashwin Verma , Aritra Mitra , Lintao Ye , Vijay Gupta

In this paper, we consider the massive non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) for short packet communications. To reduce the latency, each user can perform one re-transmission provided that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Fatemeh Ghanami , Ghosheh Abed Hodtani , Branka Vucetic , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Hossein Khayami , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

To improve the quality of experience (QoE) in video communication over lossy networks, this paper presents a transmission method that jointly optimizes buffer delay and Hybrid Automatic Repeat request (HARQ), referred to as BD-HARQ. This…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Baoping Cheng , Peng Lei , Xiaoyan Xie , Tao Fu , Yukun Zhang , Xiaoming Tao

This paper introduces a random modulation technique that is decoupled from the channel matrix, allowing it to be applied to arbitrary norm-bounded and spectrally convergent channel matrices. The proposed random modulation constructs an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Lei Liu , Yuhao Chi , Shunqi Huang

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Mohammed Jabi , Abdellatif Benyouss , Mael Le Treust , Etienne Pierre-Doray , Leszek Szczecinski

Inspired by emerging applications in vehicular networks, we address the problem of achieving high-reliability and low-latency communication in multi-hop wireless networks. We propose a new family of Automatic-Repeat-Requests (ARQs) based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jaya Goel , J. Harshan

The fifth-generation (5G) of mobile standards is expected to provide ultra-reliability and low-latency communications (URLLC) for various applications and services, such as online gaming, wireless industrial control, augmented reality, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Faisal Nadeem , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

In this paper, we propose and analyze an error-constrained data transmission approach for uplink communication using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). The results are presented for the cases with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Behrooz Makki , Tommy Svensson , Michele Zorzi

Reasoning language models such as OpenAI-o1, DeepSeek-R1, and Qwen achieve strong performance via extended chains of thought but often generate unnecessarily long outputs. Maximizing intelligence per token--accuracy relative to response…

This paper develops a framework for analyzing UAV-enabled short-packet communication, leveraging fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted relaying networks. Operating in the short-packet regime and focusing on challenging urban environments, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xusheng Zhu , Kai-Kit Wong , Hanjiang Hong , Han Xiao , Hao Xu , Tuo Wu , Chan-Byoung Chae

We propose and practically demonstrate a joint detection and decoding scheme for short-packet wireless communications in scenarios that require to first detect the presence of a message before actually decoding it. For this, we extend the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Sebastian Dörner , Jannis Clausius , Sebastian Cammerer , Stephan ten Brink

Short-packet communication alters the fundamental performance limits of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted systems, making conventional analyses based on the infinite blocklength regime insufficient. This work investigates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Farjam Karim , Deepak Kumar , Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Matti Latva-aho

In this paper, outage performance of hybrid automatic repeat request with incremental redundancy (HARQ-IR) is analyzed. Unlike prior analyses, time-correlated Nakagami-$m$ fading channel is considered. The outage analysis thus involves the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Zheng Shi , Shaodan Ma , Guanghua Yang , Kam-Weng Tam , Minghua Xia

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jaya Goel , J. Harshan

In this paper, the average achievable rate and error probability of a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) aided systems is investigated for the finite blocklength (FBL) regime. The performance loss due to the presence of phase errors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ramin Hashemi , Samad Ali , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Matti Latva-aho

In this letter, we propose a symbol-wise puncturing scheme to support hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) integrated probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS). To prevent the probability distribution distortion caused by the traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Li Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Wenjun Zhang , Xiang-Gen Xia