Int. J. Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol. 16, No. 3, 2014 Sheng-Shih Wang*, Pei-Chun Lee, Kan-Yen Linand Tzu-Chang Yeh Abstract: To provide reliable communications in wireless environments, two fundamental errorcontrol mechanisms, automatic repeat request (ARQ) and forward error correction (FEC) areproposed. However, the ARQ mechanism may suffer frequent retransmissions and the FECmechanism incurs bandwidth overhead. To reduce the number of retransmissions and supportefficient correction, pr ...