Abstract: Attributes of access terminals are employed in determining durations for erasure sequences. Transmissions from access terminals are analyzed to determine different attributes are based at least ont these attributes traffic models are estimated. Those terminals whose traffic models tend towards more frequent occurrences of longer erasures are assigned longer erasure durations to improve performance in erasure sequence detection.

Abstract: Aspects described a low receiver complexity approach for reliable packet decoding when Hybrid ARQ protocol is employed with persistent assignment and potentially an erasure sequence transmission. Multiple hypotheses packet decoding performance is achieved while mitigating multiple hypotheses receiver complexity. A reference number is utilized to perform hypotheses. The reference number is independent of a start of packet. A sequence of reference numbers can be utilized, which may not necessarily be sequential numbers. The reference numbers are pre-defined.