Patent ID: 8050622

Claim:
A wireless communication network comprising: a source wireless station configured to generate and transmit a message; a plurality of participating wireless stations configured to: receive the message; receive copies of the message from other participating wireless stations to form a corresponding vector set of signals; generate a supplemental message from the corresponding vector set of signals using a distributed code generating function that produces a regenerated codeword; transmit the supplemental message; generate multiple supplemental messages each with a different distributed code generating function from the corresponding vector set of signals; transmit the multiple supplemental signals; and a destination wireless station configured to: receive the message; receive copies of the supplemental message from the plurality of participating wireless stations to form a vector set of signals; receive the multiple supplemental messages from the plurality of participating wireless stations; process the vector set of signals, copies of the supplemental message, and the multiple supplemental messages according to a joint-decoding function to recover the message.