Patent ID: 8923448

Claim:
A system comprising: a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) receiving system comprising a MIMO baseband module having N branches; a radio distribution network (RDN) connected to the MIMO receiving system, the RDN comprising at least two beamformers, wherein each of the beamformers is fed by two or more antennas, so that a total number of antennas in the system is M, wherein M and N are integers and M is greater than N, wherein each of the beamformers includes at least one combiner configured to combine signals coming from the antennas feeding the respective beamformer into a combined signal; and an antenna routing module configured to swap at least one pair of antennas, each of the antennas in the at least one pair being associated with a different beamformer, wherein said antenna routing module is configured to swap said at least one pair of antennas based on at least one qualitative indicator derived from the baseband module, and wherein the antenna routing module is configured to route a subset of the antennas with respect to corresponding beamformers by a switching matrix that is dynamically adjusted according to the at least one qualitative indicator, wherein the at least one qualitative indicator comprises a combined power of all beamformers.