Patent ID: 8855567

Claim:
A method operational in a first receiver device for performing successive interference cancellation (SIC) in a peer-to-peer network, the first receiver device being an intended receiver of a first traffic signal to be transmitted from a first transmitter device, comprising: receiving a first pilot signal from the first transmitter device; receiving a second pilot signal from a second transmitter device, the second pilot signal indicating that the second transmitter device intends to transmit a second traffic signal; determining a first transmission rate and a second transmission rate for traffic transmissions from the first transmitter device; transmitting a control message to the first transmitter device, the control message including the first and second transmission rates; and receiving, from the first transmitter device, a traffic signal including the first traffic signal, the first traffic signal including a first signal component and a second signal component, the second signal component being superposed on the first signal component to form the first traffic signal, and the first and second signal components being generated from a first codeword and a second codeword, respectively.