Abstract
Wireless communication is inherently vulnerable to errors from the dynamic wireless environment. Link layer packets discarded due to these errors impose a serious limitation on the maximum achievable throughput in the wireless channel. To enhance the overall throughput of wireless communication, it is necessary to have a link layer transmission scheme that is robust to the errors intrinsic to the wireless channel. To this end, we present Interleaved-Forward Error Correction (I-FEC), a clever link layer coding scheme that protects link layer data against random and busty errors. We examine the level of data protection provided by I-FEC against other popular schemes. We also simulate I-FEC in Bluetooth, and compare the TCP throughput result with Bluetooth's integrated FEC coding feature. We show that I-FEC consistently and significantly outperforms other link layer coding schemes by providing an impressive amount of protection against heavy channel burst errors.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 539-544 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Proceedings - International Symposium on Computers and Communications |
| Volume | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Proceedings - ISCC 2004, Ninth International Symposium on Computers and Communications - Alexandria, Egypt Duration: 2004 Jun 28 → 2004 Jul 1 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Signal Processing
- General Mathematics
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Networks and Communications