US Patent 7263089 Method for operating a mobile radio network

A method for operating a mobile radio network is proposed which makes possible improved error protection of the control data to be transmitted while requiring as small a transmission bandwidth as possible. In this context, payload data is transmitted in payload data packets. The payload data packets are each assigned at least one header information item containing control data for routing the payload data packets in the mobile radio network. The control data and the payload data are transmitted with different error protection.