Patent ID: 7200391
Filing Date: 2007-04-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A distributed base station comprising: a central unit having one or more modems, each modem including one or more input ports; remote units, at least one of the remote units in communication with the central unit via a transmission medium, the remote units each having one or more RF elements, each RF element having one or more receive antennas; one or more combining modules configured to select one or more subsets of reverse link signals from the RF elements to be combined before each input port of the modem, wherein RF elements of at least two remote units share a reverse link capacity of at least one of the modems; and a gain compensation module configured to equalize link gains of signal paths associated with the selected subsets of reverse link signals prior to the selected subsets of reverse link signals being combined by the one or more combining modules.