Patent ID: 8325695

Claim:
A wireless cell for communicating with a provided wireless device, the wireless cell comprising: a quantity of radios, each radio transmits and receives signals using a same channel, the quantity of radios comprises at least two radios; a quantity of directional antennas, the quantity of directional antennas is greater than the quantity of radios, each directional antenna physically positioned in a fixed position; a switch; and a processor, the processor coupled to the quantity of radios; wherein: in accordance with a criteria, the processor identifies from the quantity of directional antennas a quantity of selected antennas; the switch couples each selected antenna to one radio of the quantity of radios, no selected antenna is coupled to more than one radio of the quantity of radios; the physical sector of the one or more selected antennas coupled to each radio at least partially overlaps the physical sector of the one or more selected antennas coupled to the other radios; each selected antenna is physically positioned such that a center of a physical sector of each selected antenna is oriented at a different direction with respect to the center of the physical sector of at least one other selected antenna; each selected antenna transmits and receives signals using the same channel as the radio to which the selected antenna is coupled; and the selected antennas operate as a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna so that the quantity of radios communicate with the wireless device.