Title | A slotted frequency-hopped multiple-access network with packet combining |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1996 |
Authors | Bigloo, A. M. Y., T. A. Gulliver, and V. K. Bhargava |
Journal | Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on |
Volume | 14 |
Pagination | 1859 -1865 |
Date Published | dec. |
ISSN | 0733-8716 |
Keywords | channel conditions, delay reduction, delays, diversity level, error correction, error correction codes, error detection, error detection codes, fast frequency hopped system, FH-SS packet radio network, frequency hop communication, frequency hopped spread spectrum, multi-access systems, packet combining, packet radio networks, performance analysis, received packet copies, Reed-Solomon codes, slotted frequency hopped multiple access network, spread spectrum communication, throughput |
Abstract | A frequency-hopped spread-spectrum (FH/SS) packet radio network is considered. Instead of discarding the received packets which were unsuccessfully decoded, the receiver keeps and combines the different received copies of the same packet to improve the throughput and reduce the delay necessary to transmit a packet successfully. It is shown that the throughput is substantially increased over a similar system where the uncorrectable packets are discarded. This system is equivalent to a fast frequency-hopped system where the diversity level is adapted according to the channel conditions. Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are used for error correction and detection |
URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/49.545708 |
DOI | 10.1109/49.545708 |