Patent ID: 7995524

Claim:
A method for processing wireless data in a multi-hop relay-based wireless communication network, the multi-hop relay-based wireless communication network including a plurality of intermediary nodes and a plurality of destination devices, the method comprising: determining at least one transmission path to each of the plurality of intermediary nodes, wherein the at least one transmission path includes data associated with every intermediary node along the at least one transmission path; determining a transmission path identifier for each of the at least one transmission paths, wherein the transmission path identifier is a destination node identifier; and sending transmission data to at least one destination device of the plurality of destination devices, wherein the transmission data is sent based on at least one of the transmission path identifiers, the transmission data including the transmission path identifier, the transmission path identifier including information identifying a location for at least one destination node, wherein the transmission path identifier does not include information identifying a location of the intermediary node.