Patent ID: 8867673

Claim:
A method of wireless communication comprising: selecting a quantization algorithm as a function of at least one of a characteristic of at least one decision metric representative of a transport block received over a communication channel, a characteristic of the transport block, or a condition of the communication channel; quantizing the at least one decision metric using the selected quantization algorithm to generate at least one quantized decision metric representative of the transport block; storing the at least one quantized decision metric and an indicia of the selected quantization algorithm; and recovering the at least one decision metric representative of the transport block from the stored quantized decision metric according to the stored indicia of the selected quantization algorithm prior to decoding, in which a bit width of the at least one decision metric representative of the transport block is greater than a bit width of the stored quantized decision metric, and the selected quantization algorithm selects more bits to represent the quantized decision metric in an initial transmission and fewer bits to represent the quantized decision metric in at least one re-transmission.