Hybrid-ARQ Protocols using Iterative Threshold Decoding of OSMLD Product Codes

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the impact of cyclic One-Step Majority-Logic Decodable (OSMLD) Product Codes, when decoded with the Iterative Threshold decoding algorithm, proposed by [2]. We propose to evaluate Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) Protocols using these attractive codes. The idea behind this study is to prove the attracting ARQ/FEC scheme offered by the proposed codes, and to show that we can reach a good trade-off between error rates, the average throughput and complexity. Numerical results shows that the proposed scheme may be interesting to compete many concatenated schemes applied to HARQ protocols.