A Novel Adaptive Hybrid-ARQ Protocol for Machine-to-Machine Communications

Emerging low date-rate Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications call for promising Hybrid Automatic Repeat-reQuest (HARQ) schemes with improved link reliability and feedback efficiency. This motivates us to develop a novel adaptive HARQ scheme by exploiting the knowledge of Channel Quality Information (CQI), which can be obtained through either channel estimation techniques or location- aided technology. The proposed adaptive HARQ scheme will determine the suitable transmission mode to guarantee a specific Frame Error Rate (FER) during the first transmission with the aid of location information. Simulation results demonstrated that our proposed scheme can achieve more attractive throughput performance, while maintaining a similar FER, compared to conventional HARQ schemes.

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