Patent Document ID: 20160065297
Application ID: 14839517
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A data communication method comprising: identifying a plurality of physical-layer network coding (PNC) atoms in a digital telecommunications network, the digital telecommunications network comprising a plurality of nodes and at least one relay, each of the plurality of PNC atoms comprising: a transmission pattern attribute, at least some of the plurality of nodes, and the at least one relay in the network, wherein each transmission pattern attribute of the plurality of PNC atoms cannot be decomposed to any other transmission pattern attribute of the PNC atoms; wherein each of the plurality of PNC atoms specifies how traffic flows between the plurality of nodes and the at least one relay using the transmission pattern attribute; generating a transmission schedule using the plurality of PNC atoms based at least in on part on the transmission pattern attribute of at least some of the PNC atoms; and relaying traffic between the plurality of nodes and the at least one relay, using the transmission schedule.