Patent ID: 8274927

Claim:
A method for transmitting subpackets to a mobile terminal, said method comprising: transmitting subpackets from at least one of at least two base stations; retransmitting said subpackets from the at least one of the at least two base stations, when receiving a negative acknowledgement (NACK) signal responsive to said subpackets; and transmitting new subpackets from the at least one of the at least two base stations, when receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) signal responsive to said subpackets, wherein the NACK signal includes information for selecting which base station should retransmit said subpackets, and wherein when at least one of the at least two base stations comprises at least two antennas, the NACK signal includes information for selecting which antenna should retransmit said subpackets, wherein encoding schemes respectively used by said at least two base stations for encoding subpackets apply respectively different puncturing patterns or different repetition patterns to the respective subpackets being encoded.