Patent ID: 9554375
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a base station, in a first sector, an uplink signal from a user equipment (UE), wherein two or more other sectors are in a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) group with the first sector; for each of one or more of the two or more other sectors, determining, by the base station, a corresponding application-based priority measure for the other sector, wherein the application-based priority measure is determined based on one or more types of applications having one or more service flows in the other sector; using the one or more determined application-based priority measures as a basis for selecting at least one of the two or more other sectors in the CoMP group as a secondary sector; and jointly processing, by the base station, the uplink signal from the UE, wherein the joint processing is based at least in part on the uplink signal received in the first sector and respective uplink signals received in each secondary sector.