Patent ID: 8861423

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving at a first station from a base station a first downlink packet intended for another station by overhearing the transmission of the first packet; decoding the first packet at the first station; transmitting from the first station to the base station an acknowledgement that the first downlink packet was successfully decoded; receiving at the first station a first uplink packet and a retransmission of the first packet as a total signal, the first uplink packet being intended for the first station and being transmitted by a third station, the base station designating the first station to receive the first uplink packet in response to the acknowledgement transmitted by the first station that the first downlink packet was successfully decoded, and the retransmission of the first downlink packet being from the base station and intended for the another station; subtracting at the first station the decoded first packet from the total signal to provide a resulting signal; and decoding at the first station the first uplink packet from the resulting signal.