or as part of a conventional harq termination process a transmitting entity 110 transmits a packet via an harq process step 202 the transmitting entity 110 monitors whether an ack or a nack for the packet is received step 204 if an ack is received the process 200 ends if a nack is received the transmitting entity 110 determines whether an harq early termination condition is met step 206 if the harq early termination condition is not met the packet is retransmitted step 208 and the process 200 returns to step 204 if the harq early termination condition is met the packet is discarded at the harq level step 210 the harq early termination condition may be determined by the transmitting entity 110 or may be controlled by the receiving entity 120 if the early harq termination condition is controlled by the receiving entity 120 the receiving entity 120 may send a notice requesting an early termination of the harq process in a feedback channel optionally with a nack and the controller 116 in the transmitting entity 110 terminates the harq process in response to the notice for example if a node b decides to terminate the harq process of the wtru early the node b signals to the wtru e g over a control channel that the wtru to stop sending i e stop retransmitting the packet or equivalently the node b signals that the wtru should send a new packet since this implies stopping of the old packet retransmission on the harq process the decision by the node b to early terminate the wtru 39.