304 research outputs found
Green Communication via Power-optimized HARQ Protocols
Recently, efficient use of energy has become an essential research topic for
green communication. This paper studies the effect of optimal power controllers
on the performance of delay-sensitive communication setups utilizing hybrid
automatic repeat request (HARQ). The results are obtained for repetition time
diversity (RTD) and incremental redundancy (INR) HARQ protocols. In all cases,
the optimal power allocation, minimizing the outage-limited average
transmission power, is obtained under both continuous and bursting
communication models. Also, we investigate the system throughput in different
conditions. The results indicate that the power efficiency is increased
substantially, if adaptive power allocation is utilized. For instance, assume
Rayleigh-fading channel, a maximum of two (re)transmission rounds with rates
nats-per-channel-use and an outage probability constraint
. Then, compared to uniform power allocation, optimal power
allocation in RTD reduces the average power by 9 and 11 dB in the bursting and
continuous communication models, respectively. In INR, these values are
obtained to be 8 and 9 dB, respectively.Comment: Accepted for publication on IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technolog
On the Performance of NOMA with Hybrid ARQ
In this paper, we investigate the outage performance of hybrid automatic
repeat request with chase combining (HARQ-CC) assisted downlink non-orthogonal
multiple access (NOMA) systems. A closed-form expression of the individual
outage probability and the diversity gain are obtained firstly. Based on the
developed analytical outage probability, a tradeoff between the minimum number
of retransmissions and the transmit power allocation coefficient is then
provided for a given target rate. The provided simulation results demonstrate
the accuracy of the developed analytical results. Moreover, it is shown that
NOMA combined with the HARQ-CC can achieve a significant advantage when only
average channel state information is known at the transmitter. Particularly,
the performance of the user with less transmit power in NOMA systems can be
efficiently improved by utilizing HARQ-CC
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