Patent ID: 8867446

Claim:
A method of receiving a signal, which is received from a base station by a user equipment in a distributed antenna system (DAS), the method comprising: receiving a downlink signal from the base station; transmitting feedback information including antenna related information used for transmission of the downlink signal based on the downlink signal; receiving control information on at least one effective transmitting antenna allocated to the user equipment among a plurality of antennas from the base station including the plurality of antennas; and receiving the signal via the at least one effective transmitting antenna from the base station, wherein the feedback information comprises one or more preferred pilot pattern indexes (PPPIs) requested by the user equipment, and wherein the PPPIs comprise at least one pilot pattern index (PPI) in which a received signal strength or a channel gain of a channel estimated via a common pilot received from the base station meets a value equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value.