Patent ID: 8599696

Claim:
A method of transmitting data using an adaptive hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme, the method comprising: configuring a mother codeword generated based on a turbo coder which outputs two groups of parity bits including first parity bits and second parity bits, wherein the mother codeword includes systematic bits directly followed by the first parity bits directly followed by the second parity bits; configuring a first block, which is a partial bit stream of the mother codeword, wherein a start point of the first block is fixed at a start point of the mother codeword, wherein a first modulation scheme with a first modulation order is applied to the first block, wherein the first block includes the systematic bits and a portion of the first parity bits; transmitting the first block; and configuring a second block according to a retransmission request with respect to the first block, wherein the second block directly follows the first block in the mother codeword so that the second block does not overlap with the first block, wherein the second block includes a remaining portion of the first parity bits and a portion of the second parity bits, wherein a second modulation scheme with a second modulation order is applied to the second block, wherein the first modulation order is higher than the second modulation order.