Patent ID: 8396095

Claim:
A method for decoding a composite radio signal at a receiver in a radio communication system, said composite radio signal being a superposition of at least two signals sent by at least one transmitter, each signal having signal properties, said signal properties including at least one of a modulation scheme, a coding scheme, a pilot pattern, and a subcarrier mapping between physical and logical channels, said at least two signals being transmitted using the same radio resource, said method comprising: gathering information on said signal properties of the respective signals comprised in said composite radio signal; selecting, depending on said signal properties of said respective signals, the signal to be decoded first out of said composite radio signal depending on a function of a bit error rate threshold, a modulation and coding scheme used for said signal and of a signal receive power at said receiver; decoding said signal to be decoded first according to its signal properties; and subtracting the contribution of said signal to be decoded first from said composite radio signal.