Low-Latency Short-Packet Transmissions: Fixed Length or HARQ?
Paper i proceeding, 2018

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 (HARQ) outperforms fixed-blocklength schemes with no feedback (FBL-NF) in such a setting. We derive an achievability bound for HARQ, under the assumption of a limited number of transmissions. The bound relies on pilot-assisted transmission to estimate the fading channel and scaled nearest-neighbor decoding at the receiver. We compare our achievability bound for HARQ to stateof-the-art achievability bounds for FBL-NF communications and show that for a given latency, reliability, number of information bits, and number of diversity branches, HARQ may significantly outperform FBL-NF. For example, for an average latency of 1 ms, a target error probability of 10(-3), 30 information bits, and 3 diversity branches, the gain in energy per bit is about 4 dB.

Författare

Johan Östman

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Rahul Devassy

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Guido Ferrante

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

Giuseppe Durisi

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2018 - Proceedings

8644397

2018 IEEE GLOBECOM WORKSHOPS (GC WKSHPS)
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates,

SWIFT : short-packet wireless information theory

Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (2016-03293), 2017-01-01 -- 2020-12-31.

Teori och praktik för optimal spektral effektivitet i trådlösa ad-hoc nät med strikta krav på latens och tillförlitlighet

Vetenskapsrådet (VR) (2014-2702), 2015-01-01 -- 2019-12-31.

Ämneskategorier

Telekommunikation

Kommunikationssystem

Signalbehandling

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644397

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