Patent ID: 8918048

Claim:
A method for communication based on relaying in a wireless communication network having a number of network nodes, said communication network including a designated originating node, a relay node and a destination node, and said method comprising: said originating node transmitting a message intended for said destination node; said relay node receiving a first signal representative of said message transmitted from said originating node, wherein a transmission from an interference source causes interference in the received first signal; said destination node receiving a second signal representative of said message transmitted from said originating node, wherein said transmission from said interference source causes interference in the received second signal; said relay node detecting interference from said interference source in the received first signal and which part of said message is affected by the interference, called the interfered part of the message; said relay node performing a partial retransmission based on the interfered part of the message; said destination node receiving a third signal representative of the interfered part of the message transmitted from said relay node; and said destination node detecting at least part of said message based on the received second signal representative of said message transmitted from said originating node and the received third signal representative of the interfered part of the message transmitted from said relay node.