Patent ID: 11929947
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method in a communication network, the method comprising:
a first network node receiving a first combined signal comprising a first message transmitted by a first user equipment (UE) and a second message transmitted by a second UE;
the first network node decoding the first message;
the first network node using a backhaul link to transmit the decoded first message to a second network node;
the second network node receiving a second combined signal comprising the first message and a third message transmitted by a third UE that is different than the second UE;
the second network node receiving the decoded first message transmitted by the first network node; and
the second network node using the decoded first message transmitted by the first network node to decode the third message from the second combined signal, wherein
the first UE has a buffer size, and
the method further comprises the first network node choosing between a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme and an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme based on at least a data rate associated with the first UE's buffer size.