Method of and radio network for transmitting layered data to multiple receiving stations

1. A method of transmitting data in a radio network with at least one base station, at least one relay station and at least first and second receiving stations, in which the data is organized in at least a first and a second layer, comprising:

routing at least the first layer via a first path from the at least one base station via the at least one relay station to the first receiving station;

routing at least the second layer via a second path from the base station directly to the second receiving station;

wherein the data being organized in at least a first and a second layer comprises apportioning bits of a constellation to the first path and the second path, wherein a number of bits of the constellation apportioned to the second path is based on a channel quality indicator (CQI) report and a remaining number of bits of the constellation are apportioned to the first path.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the data are a video stream.

3. A method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein a unicast report for a channel quality indicator with hierarchical modulation is used.

4. A method as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the at least one base station signals to the at least one relay station and the at least first and second receiving stations via a control channel in which a time slot of a multitude of timeslots for a receiving station, among the at least first and second receiving stations, is scheduled.

5. A method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein signaling information contains information about at least one receiving station, among the at least first and second receiving stations, scheduled on a hierarchically constellation multiplexed symbol per spatial multiplexing stream.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein signaling information additionally contains information about modulation and coding scheme format for a corresponding receiving station.

7. A method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein the at least one base station and the at least one relay station transmit simultaneously to the at least one receiving station within a relay cluster.

8. A method as claimed in claim 7 , further comprising jointly performing antenna selection in the at least one base station and the at least one relay station.

9. A method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the at least one base station and the at least one relay station use concatenated coding, iterative decoding or interference cancellation.

10. A method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein data re-transmissions of the at least one relay station are used for interference mitigation with linear or non-linear operations.

11. A radio network designed to transmit data organized in at least a first and a second layer, comprising:

at least one base station;

at least one relay station; and

at least first and second receiving stations, with at least the first layer routed via a first path from the at least one base station via the at least one relay station to the first receiving station and the second layer simultaneously routed via a second path from the base station to the second receiving station,

wherein the data being organized in at least a first and a second layer comprises apportioning bits of a constellation to the first path and the second path, wherein a number of bits of the constellation apportioned to the second path is based on a channel quality indicator (CQI) report and a remaining number of bits of the constellation are apportioned to the first path.

12. A radio network as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the radio network uses a unicast report for a channel quality indicator with hierarchical modulation.

13. A radio network as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the at least one base station is designed to signal to the at least one relay station and the at least first and second receiving stations via a control channel in which a time slot of a multitude of timeslots for at least one receiving station, among the at least first and second receiving stations, is scheduled.