Abstract
— In this paper, we study the performance of a simple ARQ error control strategy for delay-constrained data communications over a bursty channel in the presence of in- stantaneous feedback. Correlated errors are modeled as a Markov process whose parameters are directly related to phys- ical layer quantities such as the fading margin and the Doppler frequency. It is shown that this scheme can guarantee limited delays with very high probability while allowing a very signif- icant bandwidth utilization, and is therefore suitable for mul- timedia traffic over wireless. Other benefits of the scheme are the possibility of selective packet dropping and simple imple- mentation of priorities and of on-demand QoS.

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