Patent ID: 8891593

Claim:
A computer-implemented method in a computer system having a source node (S), a relay node (R) and a destination node (D), the method comprising: transmitting by S a message (m), wherein a first subset of m (m 1 ) is transmitted to R using a peaky binning scheme and wherein a second subset of m (m 2 ) is transmitted to D; decoding by R a bin index from said m 1 and forwarding said bin index to D using peaky signaling; receiving said bin index at D and decoding said bin index; receiving at D said m 2 and decoding said m 2 ; and determining by D the value of m from decoded values of said bin index and said m 2 , wherein m 1 comprises a bin index of m and wherein m 2 comprises an index of m within m 1 .