Outage analysis of hybrid-ARQ protocols in coherent free-space optical communications

Sahar Molla Aghajanzadeh, Murat Uysal

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the performance of automatic retransmission request (ARQ) protocols in coherent free-space optical (FSO) communications. Specifically, we study the outage performance of three different Hybrid-ARQ (H-ARQ) protocols and characterize their performance at large values of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) through diversity and coding gains. Our results demonstrate that significant performance gains can be achieved by the deployment of H-ARQ in coherent FSO communications especially in strong turbulence regime. Our asymptotic outage analysis further demonstrates that all protocols provide the same diversity order (which is the product of the maximum number of ARQ rounds and the minimum of the channel parameters) while they provide different coding gains.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC'11
Pages1773-1777
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC'11 - Toronto, ON, Canada
Duration: Sep 11 2011Sep 14 2011

Publication series

NameIEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC'11
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto, ON
Period9/11/119/14/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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