The invention provides a
retransmission method of a multi-level
coded modulation system and the multi-level
coded modulation system, and belongs to the technical field of communication. In the
retransmission method of the multi-level
coded modulation system, a sending end obtains a first
retransmission signal NACK from a receiving end, and based on the first NACK, N transmission
layers of a to-be-transmitted bit
stream are respectively retransmitted for J times by adopting an
incremental redundancy mode, so that the receiving end combines a first bit
stream and a second bit
stream corresponding to a first target transmission layer, and obtaining a third bit stream corresponding to the first target transmission layer, and demodulating and decoding the third bit stream, the first target transmission layer being any one of the N transmission
layers. According to the invention, by increasing the flexibility of retransmission technology application in the multi-level coding modulation system, the
gain of the multi-level coding modulation system is improved, and the reliability of
data transmission of the multi-level coding modulation system is improved, so that a coding layer without a
code rate compatibility characteristic can also adopt an IR mode, and the performance of the multi-level coding modulation system is improved.