Patent ID: 8351334

Claim:
A method of operating a transmitting node of a wireless network, the method comprising: transmitting data packets in the wireless network to a set of multiple receiving nodes; receiving quality information associated with at least one unsuccessfully decoded data packet from at least one node of the set, the quality information representing a degree of decodability on a per packet basis of the at least one unsuccessfully decoded data packet at the at least one node, an unsuccessfully decoded data packet comprising one or more information bits having probability estimates which do not exceed a minimum required probability threshold; using the quality information both: to select at least one receiving node from said set of multiple candidate receiving nodes to which to transmit a forwarded packet, the forwarded packet comprising at least a portion of the data contained in the at least one unsuccessfully decoded data packet; and to determine an amount of redundancy data to include in the forwarded packet; and forwarding the forwarded packet to the selected at least one receiving node.