A system according to a Third Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evolution, 3GPP LTE, or Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access, WiMAX, standard for retransmitting packets of data, the system comprising: processing circuitry configured to generate a Radio Link Control, RLC, layer data packet; transmission circuitry configured to: convert the RLC layer data packet to one or more physical, PHY, layer data packets, transmit the one or more PHY layer data packets, disable transmission of RLC polling status messages and transmission of RLC status reports; and scheduling circuitry configured to: receive at least one of a hybrid automatic transmission request, HARQ, acknowledgment, ACK, message and a HARQ negative acknowledgment, NACK, from a receiver in response to transmission of the one or more PHY layer data packets, and determine whether the at least one of the HARQ ACK message and the HARQ NACK message represents an automatic transmission request, ARQ, ACK message or a ARQ NACK message at the RLC layer, wherein the scheduling circuitry is further configured to determine that the HARQ NACK message represents the ARQ NACK message in response to receiving a pre-specified number of consecutive HARQ NACK messages. processing circuitry configured to generate a Radio Link Control, RLC, layer data packet; transmission circuitry configured to: convert the RLC layer data packet to one or more physical, PHY, layer data packets, transmit the one or more PHY layer data packets, disable transmission of RLC polling status messages and transmission of RLC status reports; and scheduling circuitry configured to: receive at least one of a hybrid automatic transmission request, HARQ, acknowledgment, ACK, message and a HARQ negative acknowledgment, NACK, from a receiver in response to transmission of the one or more PHY layer data packets, and determine whether the at least one of the HARQ ACK message and the HARQ NACK message represents an automatic transmission request, ARQ, ACK message or a ARQ NACK message at the RLC layer, wherein the scheduling circuitry is further configured to determine that the HARQ NACK message represents the ARQ NACK message in response to receiving a pre-specified number of consecutive HARQ NACK messages. convert the RLC layer data packet to one or more physical, PHY, layer data packets, transmit the one or more PHY layer data packets, disable transmission of RLC polling status messages and transmission of RLC status reports; and scheduling circuitry configured to: receive at least one of a hybrid automatic transmission request, HARQ, acknowledgment, ACK, message and a HARQ negative acknowledgment, NACK, from a receiver in response to transmission of the one or more PHY layer data packets, and determine whether the at least one of the HARQ ACK message and the HARQ NACK message represents an automatic transmission request, ARQ, ACK message or a ARQ NACK message at the RLC layer, wherein the scheduling circuitry is further configured to determine that the HARQ NACK message represents the ARQ NACK message in response to receiving a pre-specified number of consecutive HARQ NACK messages. receive at least one of a hybrid automatic transmission request, HARQ, acknowledgment, ACK, message and a HARQ negative acknowledgment, NACK, from a receiver in response to transmission of the one or more PHY layer data packets, and determine whether the at least one of the HARQ ACK message and the HARQ NACK message represents an automatic transmission request, ARQ, ACK message or a ARQ NACK message at the RLC layer, wherein the scheduling circuitry is further configured to determine that the HARQ NACK message represents the ARQ NACK message in response to receiving a pre-specified number of consecutive HARQ NACK messages. <EOS>