Patent ID: 8849354

Claim:
A base station comprising: an interface configured to: establish a plurality of wired connections with a plurality of geographically distributed remote transceivers, each remote transceiver of the plurality of remote transceivers having one or more physical antenna ports; and a processor coupled to the interface and configured to: assign the plurality of remote transceivers to a plurality of sets, each set of the plurality of sets having one or more of the plurality of remote transceivers; assign one or more logical ports to each set of the plurality of sets, each logical port of the one or more logical ports assigned to a respective set of the plurality of sets corresponding to at least one physical antenna port of each of the one or more remote transceivers of the respective set; receive signal quality feedback from an endpoint, the signal quality feedback indicating a signal quality for each set of at least two sets of the plurality of sets; select a first set of the plurality of sets to use for sending data traffic from the base station to the endpoint, the first set selected based on the received signal quality feedback from the endpoint; wherein the interface is further configured to send data traffic from the base station to the endpoint using at least one wireless connection between the endpoint and at least one physical antenna port of each of the one or more remote transceivers of a first set of the plurality of sets; determine a location of the endpoint based on the received signal quality feedback from the endpoint; and transmit a request requesting that the endpoint provide signal quality feedback with respect to a specified subset of the one or more sets.