Patent ID: 8055300

Claim:
A base station for communicating with one or more user equipment (UE) terminals, comprising: a plurality of antennas configured to transmit and receive wireless signals, corresponding to radio resources, to and from the UE terminals; a radio frequency (RF) unit operatively coupled to the plurality of antennas and configured to control power of signals emanating from the plurality of antennas; a beam forming unit operatively coupled to the RF unit and configured to scale the power of the signal emanating from each antenna by a weight factor for each radio resource; and a beam controller configured to control the beam forming unit by setting the weight factor for each antenna for each radio resource, wherein multiple indoor antennas of the plurality of antennas are provided for indoor coverage and multiple outdoor antennas of the plurality of antennas are provided outdoors, where the indoors includes an interior space of a physical structure, wherein the beam controller is configured to set the weight factor for each indoor antenna for each radio resource to control transmission/reception of the wireless signals for indoor UE terminals reachable by the indoor antenna, a number of weight factor values being two for each indoor antenna for each radio resource, wherein the weight factor for each indoor antenna is one of ON and OFF for each radio resource, wherein the beam controller is configured to set the weight factor for each outdoor antenna to control a direction and/or a width of wireless signal beams for transmission/reception of the wireless signals for outdoor UE terminals reachable by the outdoor antennas, wherein the weight factor for each outdoor antenna is one of a number of outdoor weight factor values for each radio resource, the number of outdoor weight factor values being three or more, and wherein each radio resource is individually identifiable based on at least one of a frequency, a time slot, or a spreading code.