Methods and systems employing receive diversity in distributed cellular antenna applications

摘要

A network comprises a plurality of antennas remotely located from and optically coupled to a base station is provided The base station has a plurality of receive or transmit/receive ports. The antennas are split into a plurality of groups equal in number to a number of receive ports. The uplink signals from each group of antennas are connected to one of the receive ports of the base stations by signal combination. A plurality of links couple the remotely located antennas and the base stations.