| CPC H04L 1/1812 (2013.01) [H04L 1/08 (2013.01); H04L 1/1642 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 27/2607 (2013.01); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. An operating method of a receiving device configured to perform a hybrid automatic repeat and request (HARQ) process, the operating method comprising:
receiving data from a target transmitting device via a sidelink channel;
determining whether to request transmission of replacement data for the data from the target transmitting device according to a performance result of the HARQ process on the received data; and when transmission of the replacement data is requested, transmitting to the target transmitting device a replacement data request signal distinct from an acknowledge (ACK) signal and a negative-ACK (NACK) signal,
wherein the replacement data has a second coding rate lower than a first coding rate of data transmitted in response to the NACK signal.
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