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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2008
Kyung-chul Yoo, Gwacheon-si, KR;
Jin-woo Roh, Suwon-si, KR;
Bong-gee Song, Seongnam-si, KR;
Dong-min Kim, Anyang-si, KR;
Jung-ho Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Kyung-Chul Yoo, Gwacheon-si, KR;
Jin-Woo Roh, Suwon-si, KR;
Bong-Gee Song, Seongnam-si, KR;
Dong-Min Kim, Anyang-si, KR;
Jung-Ho Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a wireless communication system are provided. A receiver includes a Media Access Control (MAC) layer part for error-checking each MAC Packet Data Units (PDUs) extracted from a physical layer burst, and generating HARQ combination control information according to a result of the error check; a receiving part for receiving a retransmit burst; and a combiner for selecting one or more Forward Error Correction (FEC) blocks from the retransmit burst according to the HARQ combination control information, and HARQ-combining the selected one or more FEC blocks.