Sequential decoding with an efficient incremental redundancy ARQ scheme

Sequential decoding is analyzed in conjunction with an efficient incremental redundancy automatic repeat request (ARQ) scheme using punctured convolutional coding. With the incremental redundancy ARQ scheme, whenever the decoding time of a given data packet exceeds some predetermined value T_max, decoding of that data packet is stopped and incremental redundancy bits are provided by the transmitter, a few bits at a time, as needed. It is shown that the incremental redundancy ARQ scheme provides throughput improvement over the partial retransmission code combining ARQ scheme. The advantage of the incremental redundancy ARQ scheme is that the throughput increases as the starting coding rate increases over all ranges of signal-to-noise ratios