System and method employing frequency band flipping for the retransmission of data

摘要

For use in a communication system, an apparatus that, in one embodiment, includes a band flipping module configured to renumber physical resource blocks for a retransmission of data from physical resource blocks associated with a previous transmission of the data. The apparatus also includes a transceiver configured to retransmit the data in accordance with the renumbered physical resource blocks.