HARQ in Poisson Point Process-based Heterogeneous Networks

• Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) plays animportant role in improving the transmission efficiency and the robustness of wireless networks. Considering K-tier heterogeneous networks (HetNets) and modelling the locations of the base stations (BSs) as a homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP), this paper investigates the performance of HetNets implementing HARQ. We give closed-form expressions for the coverage probability and the per-user throughput with HARQ and show that using HARQ can indeed improve the coverage probability. However, depending on the channel conditions, the per-userthroughput of the HetNets may decrease by the implementation of HARQ. Furthermore, we show that the small cell density has negligible effect on the coverage probability and per-user throughput, and the per-user throughput may increase with the small cell path loss.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Telekommunikation (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Telecommunications (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Signalbehandling (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Signal Processing (hsv//eng)

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