A transmitter, a receiver and a method for communicating data packets. The method comprises receiving a data packet and determining if it is a re- or new transmission; and, when it is a retransmission: combining the received data packet with oldest unsuccessfully decoded data packet stored in a second memory, and decoding the combined data packet; when it is a new transmission: decoding the received data packet; checking if the decoding is successful; deleting the oldest stored data packet in the first memory; storing the decoded data packet in the first memory when the decoding is successful or storing the decoded data packet in the second memory when the decoding is not successful; and transmitting feed-back information to the transmitter.