Patent ID: 8817848

Claim:
A method of operating a distributed antenna system, the method comprising: providing a processor; receiving a list of remote units, each of the remote units having an antenna port, wherein the list of remote units includes a number of non-diversity remote units; computing, for a sector, a number of diversity remote units and a number of non-diversity remote units; computing, using the processor, a percentage of the number of non-diversity remote units in the list of remote units; assigning, for each of the remote units, the antenna port to either a first uplink port of a master unit or a second uplink port of the master unit; transmitting the assignments to the remote units; receiving a first RF uplink signal at an antenna port of a first remote unit; receiving a second RF uplink signal at an antenna port of a second remote unit; transmitting an RF signal associated with the first RF uplink signal to the first uplink port of the master unit; and transmitting a second RF signal associated with the second RF uplink signal to the second uplink port of the master unit.