Patent ID: 8428653

Claim:
A method for maximizing capacity of a distributed antenna system, comprising: selecting a relaying antenna from a set of antennas of a distributed antenna system to relay a signal to a mobile device; allocating a signal power based on a pseudo-capacity criterion such that an average pseudo capacity of the distributed antenna system is maximized; and relaying the signal from the relaying antenna to the mobile device with the allocated signal power, wherein the average pseudo capacity C pc is C pc = 1 T ⁢ ∑ k = 1 T ⁢ log 2 ( 1 + β m k ⁢ k ⁢ p k ∑ i ≠ k ⁢ β m i ⁢ k ⁢ p i + σ N 2 ) , where T is total number of mobile devices using same frequency in the distributed antenna system: σ 2 N is an average power of the AWGN: m k is an index of the antenna m in the set of antennas used by the mobile device k; β mk is the power gain between the antenna m and the mobile device k; p k is a signal power at the antenna m k to relay signal to the mobile device k.