Everything about Automatic repeat request

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Automatic repeat requestA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request for Downlink Rate-Splitting Multiple AccessInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Eloquent JavascriptThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Automatic-repeat-request error-control schemesCited 760 times
5. Go sideways: Selective Repeat ARQA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Retransmission (data networks)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Automatic-repeat-request error-control schemes

  Shu Lin, Daniel J. Costello, Michael J. Miller · 1984 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 760 citations

• Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) in Wireless Communications Systems and Standards: A Contemporary Survey

  Ashfaq Ahmed, Arafat Al-Dweik, Youssef Iraqi · 2021 · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 155 citations

• Improving Automatic Repeat-Request (ARQ) Performance on Satellite Channels Under High Error Rate Conditions

  A. Sastry · 1975 · IEEE Transactions on Communications · 122 citations

• Queuing analysis of the selective repeat automatic repeat request protocol wireless packet networks

  R. Fantacci · 1996 · IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology · 54 citations

• Analysis and Improvement of Send-and-Wait Automatic Repeat-reQuest Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

  Yuxin Liu, Anfeng Liu, Zhigang Chen · 2014 · Wireless Personal Communications · 49 citations

• Hybrid Automatic-Repeat-reQuest Systems for Cooperative Wireless Communications

  Hoang Anh Ngo, Lajos Hanzo · 2014 · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials · 42 citations

• Rethink Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest Design for 5G: Five Configurable Enhancements

  Klaus I. Pedersen, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Gilberto Berardinelli · 2017 · IEEE Wireless Communications · 39 citations

• Performance of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Using Hybrid Automatic Repeat ReQuest: Stop-and-Wait

  Fazlullah Khan, Ateeq ur Rehman, Muhammad Usman · 2018 · Mobile Networks and Applications · 24 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request for Downlink Rate-Splitting Multiple Access

  Rafael Cerna Loli, Onur Dizdar, Bruno Clerckx · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 16 citations

• SemHARQ: Semantic-Aware Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request for Multi-Task Semantic Communications

  Jiangjing Hu, Fengyu Wang, Wenjun Xu · 2026 · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 9 citations

• An Adaptive Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (A-HARQ) Scheme Based on Reinforcement Learning

  Shih-Yang Lin, Miao-Hui Yang, Shuo Jia · 2023 · Electronics · 9 citations

• Enhanced Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Scheduling for Non-Terrestrial IoT Networks

  Gautham Prasad, Vishnu Rajendran Chandrika, Lutz Lampe · 2023 · IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society · 7 citations

• Statistical Delay Guarantee of Wireless Channel With Automatic Repeat Request in Industrial IoT

  Xiao Hong, Xiaoqi Wang, Yuehong Gao · 2023 · IEEE Communications Letters · 7 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Eloquent JavascriptMarijn Haverbeke · 2009
• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• Raspberry Pi CookbookSimon Monk · 2014
• 📕Automatic-repeat-request error control schemesShu Lin · 1984
• 📕A Selective Automatic Repeat Request Protocol for Undersea Acoustic Links · 2004
• 📕Hybrid automatic repeat request schemes using turbo codes and low density parity check codesRamesh Mantha · 1999
• 📕Throughput performance of data-communication systems using automatic-repeat-request (ARQ) error-control schemesJoel M Morris · 1977
• The executive and the elephantRichard L. Daft · 2010

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