Patent ID: 7213189

Claim:
A method for scheduling a decoding process of coded data blocks transmitted over a wireless link in a communication network, the method comprising: storing a coded, data block in a queue if all decoders of a cluster of iterative decoders are unavailable; decoding the coded data block in a decoder of said cluster; returning any of the coded data block being unsuccessfully decoded to said queue; combining said unsuccessfully decoded data block with a corresponding retransmitted coded data block; wherein a transmission between a physical layer of a stack of protocols in a communication apparatus and a physical layer of a stack of protocols in the communication network is controlled by a protocol requiring an ACK/NACK-report of the transmission within a predetermined time limit; and wherein the NACK-report is transmitted to a transmitter of the data block if the time limit is reached before the stored data block is moved to any of the decoders of the cluster.