Patent ID: 8537711

Claim:
A method for eliminating interference for an interconnected group of base stations of a mobile radio network when receiving data transmitted by mobile radio terminals in the mobile radio network, wherein the data are encoded in a mobile radio terminal as symbols of a modulation alphabet and modulated on a carrier frequency for the transmission, information regarding the symbols received at base stations of the interconnected group are transmitted between the base stations by means of communication links for eliminating interference, the base stations of the interconnected group demodulate and decode the received symbols in a cooperative and decentralized manner, and a statistical expectation value of one of the received symbols is determined each time at one of the base stations of the interconnected group and relayed as information for eliminating interference, wherein at one of the base stations of the interconnected group: the symbols received at other base stations of the interconnected group are reconstructed with received expectation values from the other base stations of the interconnected group, and the reconstructed symbols are used to eliminate interference in the one of the received symbols.