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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2003
Johan Nystrom, Stockholm, SE;
Pal Frenger, Linkoping, SE;
Johan Nystrom, Stockholm, SE;
Pal Frenger, Linkoping, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A relay station (and) and a method () are described herein that enables reliable digital communications to occur between two nodes in a wireless relay based network (and). The wireless relay based network includes a first node (and) that transmits information in coded/modulated digital communications to a second node (and) via one or more relay stations. And, each relay station is capable of: (1) receiving () a coded/modulated digital communication from the first node; (2) computing () a plurality of reliability values for a plurality of information symbols or coded symbols in the received coded/modulated digital communication; and (3) transmitting () a coded/modulated digital communication that has the computed reliability values embedded therein to the second node.