Patent ID: 9577922
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving baseband uplink transmissions from remote units of a distributed antenna system via a first channel and a second channel; generating a first combined uplink signal by combining a first portion of the baseband uplink transmissions received from a first subset of the remote units via the first channel, wherein the first portion of the baseband uplink transmissions is determined to include data for transmission to a base station; generating a second combined uplink signal by combining a second portion of the baseband uplink transmissions received from a second subset of the remote units via the second channel, wherein generating the second combined uplink signal comprises attenuating or excluding a third portion of the baseband uplink transmissions that are received from the first subset of the remote units via the second channel and that is determined to lack data for transmission to the base station; and transmitting the first combined uplink signal and the second combined uplink signal to the base station.