Selective-repeat-ARQ schemes for broadcast links

The authors propose retransmission error control schemes for broadcast channels. In their selective-repeat-ARQ (automatic repeat request) method, they incorporate some aspects of implementation that they believe were ignored by all the previous work. Based on this protocol, they also propose a type-2 hybrid ARQ scheme that uses parity retransmission. They apply the dynamic programming optimization technique of Wang and Silvester (1987), with some modification, to their schemes. Analysis shows that their schemes outperform all the existing schemes. As special cases of their proposed schemes, the authors can obtain point-to-point ARQ schemes which also outperform all the existing point-to-point schemes. Thus, their schemes extend the useful range of retransmission error control schemes for these channels