Patent Document ID: 20110019565
Application ID: 12835516
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. Method for allocating bandwidth in a communications network, wherein it comprises steps for: a) determining a subset of elementary networks from a set of possible elementary networks in a communications network, the elementary networks of said subset each being capable of simultaneously implementing a elementary network encoding scheme, the implementation of an elementary network encoding scheme enabling the release of a portion of bandwidth that can serve for the transmission of at least one data unit; b) determining at least one critical destination node in the communications network, a destination node being said to be critical when it has not been able to accurately decode at least one received data unit; c) allocating at least one bandwidth portion released by an application of said elementary network encoding scheme in at least one elementary network of said subset, for a transmission of at least one additional data unit to said at least one critical destination node, enabling an improvement in the decoding capacity of said at least one critical destination node.