US Patent 7600173 Retransmission control method and communications device

A retransmission control method comprising: generating N parity check matrices; generating a generator matrix containing a check symbol generator matrix contained in the first parity check matrix; transmitting the codeword generated by using the generator matrix to another communications device; generating, when the communications device receives a NAK in response to the codeword, a first additional parity by using the second parity check matrix; and retransmitting the first additional parity to the another communications device.