Ling-Jyh Chen, Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
T. Sun, Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
M.Y. Sanadidi, Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
M. Gerla, Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
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.
Citation:
Ling-Jyh Chen, T. Sun, M.Y. Sanadidi, M. Gerla, "Improving wireless link throughput via interleaved FEC," iscc, vol. 1, pp.539-544, Ninth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2004 Volume 1 (ISCC'04), 2004
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