The Powerful Combined Effect of Forward Error Correction and Automatic Repeat Request to Improve the Reliability in the Wireless Communications

In this paper, we focus on efficient method for improving the reliability of data retransmission in real operational wireless communications. We analyze the effects of ACK (Acknowledge) and FEC (Forward Error Correction) on practical transmission performance of different message sizes. We propose a novel idea which allows quantifying and qualifying the reliability improvement in the network remote performance by exploiting Payload bitrate and forwarding time versus average message size with/without ACK/FEC respectively.