Patent ID: 8438444

Claim:
A method of associating Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) with Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ), comprising: constructing at least one coding block using ARQ blocks received from an ARQ entity of a transmitting side; transmitting each of the at least one coding block to a receiving side according to a HARQ operation; transmitting an error message indicating a number of a transmission failure coding block to the ARQ entity of the transmitting side, wherein the error message includes a size of a coding block unit of the at least one coding block; receiving at least one ARQ block corresponding to the transmission failure coding block from the ARQ entity of the transmitting side, wherein the received at least one ARQ block is constructed based on the number of the transmission failure coding block and the size of the coding block unit; constructing another at least one coding block using the at least one ARQ block corresponding to the transmission failure coding block; and retransmitting the another at least one coding block to the receiving side according to the HARQ operation.