iving a UL Group Resource Allocation A-MAP IE, the MS transmits the HARQ sub-packet in the resource assigned by the UL Group Resource Allocation A-MAP IE. The serving BS will attempt to decode the data packet. If the decoding is successful, the BS will send a positive acknowledgement to the MS; otherwise, the BS will send a negative acknowledgement to the MS. With the UL Group Resource Allocation, the HARQ re-transmissions are allocated individually and performed as described earlier. In this case, the UL Basic Assignment A-MAP IE contains the same ACID as the one used by the UL Group Resource Allocation A-MAP IE for the first HARQ sub-packet transmission. Persistent Allocation (PA) is a technique used to reduce assignment overhead for connections with a periodic traffic pattern and relatively fixed payload size. To allocate resources persistently to a single connection, the BS transmits a Persistent Allocation A-MAP IE for DL or UL. The persistently allocated resource size, resource location, and the packet modulation and coding scheme remain unchanged by the BS and MS until the persistent assignment is de-allocated, changed, or an error event occurs. The persistent scheduling does not include any special consideration for HARQ re-transmissions of data packets that were initially transmitted using persistently allocated resources. Resources for re-transmissions can be allocated one at a time as needed using a DL or UL Basic Assignment A-MAP IE. On receiving an uplink Persistent Allo- cation A-MAP IE, the MS periodically transmits the HARQ sub-packets through the assigned resource as specified in the UL Persistent Allocation A-MAP IE. The serving BS will attempt to decode the received data packet. If the decoding is successful, the BS will send a positive acknowledgement to the MS; otherwise, a negative acknowledgement is sent to the MS. If the HARQ entity in the transmitter determines that the HARQ process was unsuccessfully terminated, it informs the ARQ entity in the transmitter about the failure of the HARQ p