Patent ID: 9722686
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H01Q,H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive signals from a network, the method comprising: receiving signals, from the network, by multiple distributed unit (DUs) distributed within the UE, wherein the multiple DUs comprise one or more main DUs and one or more sub DUs; reporting, by the sub DUs, first reception information of the signals to one of the main DUs; reporting, by the one of the main DUs, second reception information of the signals to a central unit (CU) controlling the multiple DUs based on the first reception information of the signals, wherein one or both of the first reception information of the signals and the second reception information of the signals comprise a portion of the signals received by a specific DU among the multiple DUs; determining, at the CU, which one or more DUs among the multiple DUs are to transfer the received signals to the CU based on the second reception information of the signals; and transferring a remaining portion of the signals received by the specific DU to the CU, when the specific DU is determined to transfer the signals to the CU.