DEVICES AND METHODS FOR SUPPORTING HARQ FOR IEEE 802.11

The present invention relates to Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) in wireless communication technologies, particularly HARQ for IEEE 802.11, i.e. HARQ for Wi-Fi. To this end, the invention proposes a transmitting device and a receiving device, respectively, both configured to support such HARQ in Wi-Fi. The transmitting device is configured to: select a first interleaving sequence; interleave a data unit using the first interleaving sequence to obtain a first interleaved data unit to be transmitted to a receiving device. Accordingly, the receiving device is configured to: receive a first interleaved data unit; select a first de-interleaving sequence according to a first interleaving sequence; and de-interleave the first interleaved data unit using the first de-interleaving sequence to obtain the data unit.