A method for controlling radio communication such as mobile phone communication is provided for preventing an endless loop of a request for retransmission that is issued by a device on a reception side to a device on a transmission side. The transmission device performs processes of counting, for each RLC-PDU, the number of times when a request for retransmission is issued by the reception device (#524), and transmitting control information indicating that a process of receiving the RLC-PDU should be skipped to the reception device when the number of times of the request for retransmission of the RLC-PDU reaches a threshold value (#528).