Patent ID: 8812924

Claim:
A method of handling a retransmission of a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme for a receiver in a communication system, the method comprising: receiving a first payload from a transmitter in the communication system; generating a resource index by using damage information of the first payload and quality information of a channel between the transmitter and the receiver; and feeding back the resource index to the transmitter, to indicate a size for a second payload in the next reception, when the receiver is unsuccessful to decode the first payload into a plurality of information bits; wherein the transmitter encodes the plurality of information bits into the first payload by using an error correction code (ECC); wherein the damage information is a function of a first plurality of soft output values of the first payload generated by the receiver when decoding the first payload, and the first plurality of soft output values of the first payload are part of soft output values generated by the receiver when decoding the first payload, and the part of the soft output values are generated by the receiver at the last iteration when a iterative decoding is used to decode the first payload.