A slotted frequency-hopped multiple-access network with packet combining

Author

Bigloo, Amir M Y ; Gulliver, T. Aaron ; Bhargava, Vijay K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

14

Issue

9

fYear

1996

fDate

12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1859

Lastpage

1865

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

Keywords

Reed-Solomon codes; delays; error correction codes; error detection codes; frequency hop communication; multi-access systems; packet radio networks; spread spectrum communication; FH-SS packet radio network; Reed-Solomon codes; channel conditions; delay reduction; diversity level; error correction; error detection; fast frequency hopped system; frequency hopped spread spectrum; packet combining; performance analysis; received packet copies; slotted frequency hopped multiple access network; throughput; Frequency; Multiple access interference; Narrowband; Packet radio networks; Packet switching; Radio transmitters; Reed-Solomon codes; Satellite broadcasting; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/49.545708

Filename

545708