Patent ID: 8205127

Claim:
A method of communication in a wireless communication system between a sending node and a receiving node, wherein the communication comprises the sending node transmitting to the receiving node a first coded message block comprising a plurality of parts distributed over a plurality of components, the method comprising: identifying that the received first coded message block could not be correctly decoded, identifying at least one part of the first coded message which has probably contributed to a decoding error, and the component associated to said part; the receiving node feeding back to the sending node at least an indication that the first coded message block could not be correctly decoded, and suggested retransmission setting, comprising a combination of: component selection, link adaptation, power control and scheduling; the sending node determining retransmission settings, at least partly based on the feedback information, the determination of retransmission settings comprising the allocation of the part of the first coded message which has probably contributed to the decoding error to a component of better quality than the component used for said part in the transmission of the first coded message block; the sending node retransmitting selected parts of the first coded message block in a second coded message block to the receiving node using the determined retransmission settings.