Patent ID: 11943045
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 29:
30. A distributed system comprising:
a first unit; and
a group of remote radio units (RRUs) communicatively coupled to the first unit using a switched Ethernet network;
wherein the first unit is configured to facilitate communication between a core network and a cluster of the RRUs, wherein the system is configured so that the cluster of RRUs is used with the first unit to provide wireless service; and
wherein the system is configured to:
assign one or more RRUs, selected from the group of RRUs, to the cluster of RRUs based on one or more parameters;
perform at least a medium access control (MAC) protocol of the RAN; and
communicate over the switch Ethernet network with the cluster of RRUs;

wherein at least one of the RRUs of the group comprises a compound RRU that includes a plurality of logical RRUs, each of the plurality of logical RRUs configured to act as a respective separate RRU;
wherein said one or more RRUs assigned to the cluster includes at least one of the logical RRUs of the compound RRU; and
wherein each of the plurality of logical RRUs is configured to perform at least some layer one baseband processing for a wireless interface.