Patent 7620872 was granted and assigned to LG on November, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus and method for maximizing throughout for HARQ transmissions is provided. Systematic and prodeduralized RV selection is facilitated by determining the parameter “s” by using two important factors affecting the system throughout, specifically the coding gain varying according to the code rate and the balance between energy per systematic bit and energy per parity bit.