Patent ID: 9693319
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for calibrating amplitude hardware-induced distortion in a long term evolution (LTE) communications system, the method comprising: receiving, by a first base station (BS) associated with a centralized radio access network (C-RAN) of an LTE communications system, from a user equipment (UE) communicating in the LTE communications system, a power status indication; estimating, by the first BS, based on the received power status indication, a first downlink pathloss associated with communications to the UE from the first BS; estimating, by a second BS associated with the C-RAN, a second downlink pathloss associated with communications to the UE from the second BS based on the power status indication received by the first BS; and performing, by the C-RAN, based on the first and second downlink pathloss estimates of one or more UEs, downlink power allocation; wherein at least one of the preceding actions is performed on at least one electronic hardware component.