A Study on ARQ Policies for Data Transmission based on Kullback–Leibler Information

This study discusses methods for designing two types of ARQ policy; (1) the usual ARQ policy and (2) the extended ARQ policy, which is proposed in this study. In the protocol of the usual ARQ policy, the upper bound for the number of retransmissions of the data is empirically determined. A statistical model and a model based on Kullback–Leibler information (K–L model) are proposed for determining such a upper bound of retransmissions. Both the models are also applied to the extended ARQ policy. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the K–L model which makes the design of ARQ policies easier than the statistical model.