3 papers
physics.soc-ph2023
Why winning a soccer game is worth 5 points
Leszek Szczecinski
Ranking is used in sport leagues to determine a champion and/or to decide on promotion/relegation of teams. Arguably, the best known ranking method relies on scores obtained by cum…
cs.IR2021
FIFA ranking: Evaluation and path forward
Leszek Szczecinski, Iris-Ioana Roatis
In this work we study the ranking algorithm used by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA); we analyze the parameters it currently uses, show the formal probabili…
cs.IT2016
How to Boost the Throughput of HARQ with Off-the-Shelf Codes
Mohammed Jabi, Etienne Pierre-Doray, Leszek Szczecinski +1
In this work, we propose a coding strategy designed to enhance the throughput of hybrid ARQ (HARQ) transmissions over i.i.d. block-fading channels with the channel state informatio…