Chip-Level HARQ Chase Combining for HSUPA

Joint Authors

Visoz, Raphaël
Saoudi, Samir
Ait-Idir, Tarik
Et Tolba, Mohamed

Source

Research Letters in Communications

Issue

Vol. 2009, Issue 2009 (31 Dec. 2009), pp.1-4, 4 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2009-03-10

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

4

Main Subjects

Telecommunications Engineering
Electronic engineering

Abstract EN

Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) is used in high-speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) to increase the data rate.

Chase combining is the simplest of HARQ algorithms.

It provides a time diversity and requires a small memory.

In this paper, we propose a technique to increase the chase combining efficiency.

In this method, HARQ transmissions are seen as additional receive antennas which are jointly combined at chip-level using a space-time linear minimum square error (LMMSE).

We demonstrate that the chase combining diversity gain is considerably increased especially for high-order modulation.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Et Tolba, Mohamed& Saoudi, Samir& Visoz, Raphaël& Ait-Idir, Tarik. 2009. Chip-Level HARQ Chase Combining for HSUPA. Research Letters in Communications،Vol. 2009, no. 2009, pp.1-4.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)

Et Tolba, Mohamed…[et al.]. Chip-Level HARQ Chase Combining for HSUPA. Research Letters in Communications No. 2009 (2009), pp.1-4.
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American Medical Association (AMA)

Et Tolba, Mohamed& Saoudi, Samir& Visoz, Raphaël& Ait-Idir, Tarik. Chip-Level HARQ Chase Combining for HSUPA. Research Letters in Communications. 2009. Vol. 2009, no. 2009, pp.1-4.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-455666

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-455666