Patent ID: 8275265

Claim:
A method of operating an optical fiber-based wireless communication system, comprising: (a) determining a first plurality of remote units in a cloud bonded to a Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) communication session; (b) measuring at least one of a received signal strength and a data rate from each of the first plurality of remote units; (c) measuring at least one of a received signal strength and an estimated data rate from each of a second plurality of remote units in the cloud not bonded to the RoF communication session; and (d) dynamically bonding one of the second plurality of remote units to the RoF communication session if the at least one of the measured received signal strength and the estimated data rate of the one of the second plurality of remote units is greater than the at least one of the measured received signal strength and the data rate of one of the first plurality of remote units.