Yang, Qing2024-08-152024-08-1519901990https://hdl.handle.net/1828/20257In this work, a systematic approach to optimum coding design for Type­-I Hybrid ARQ/FEC error control schemes is developed. A knowledge­-combined expert system method is proposed for optimal coding selection. Performance analysis is further discussed for Type-I Hybrid ARQ schemes. Particularly, a simple time delay analysis is carried out by using queueing theory. Finally, a pragmatic approach to design an optimum Type-I hybrid ARQ scheme with BCH error correcting code is developed by introducing overall throughput as a system performance measure. This optimization provides a further improvement of the overall throughput efficiency with reasonable implementation complexity which is found to have a local max­imum in the throughput contour plot.79 pagesAvailable to the World Wide WebThesis