Patent ID: 8891654

Claim:
A method for transmitting, by a base station including a plurality of antennas each being spaced apart from one another at a predetermined distance or more, a signal to a user equipment in a distributed antenna system (DAS), the method comprising: transmitting, by the base station, antenna selection information indicating a Ntx×r precoding matrix W for indicating a specific number R of antennas used for a communication between the base station and the user equipment, among the plurality of antennas, where Ntx is a number of antennas included in the base station, R is an integer greater than 1 and r is a number of streams transmitted to the user equipment; and transmitting power ratio information indicating a Ntx×Ntx diagonal matrix P, the Ntx×Ntx diagonal matrix includes information on a ratio of the power being assigned to each of the R antennas used for the communication between the base station and the user equipment; and applying P*W to the signal, and transmitting the PW applied signal to the user equipment, wherein the Ntx×r precoding matrix W includes a R×r precoding matrix, which is one of a plurality of precoding matrixes used in a centralized antenna system (CAS), as a sub-matrix, wherein each of the plurality of precoding matrixes used in the CAS assigns a same power to each antenna of the R antennas, and wherein the Ntx×Ntx diagonal matrix P is configured to assign different powers to the R antennas.