Tower mounted amplifier (TMA) control based on user equipment (UE) concentration

A Radio Access Network (RAN) that comprises a Tower Mounted Amplifier (TMA), the RAN comprising:

• a Baseband Unit (BBU) configured to determine an amount of proximate wireless User Equipment (UEs) that have transmit power levels that fall below a proximity threshold and determine when the amount of the proximate UEs exceeds a concentration threshold;
• when the amount of the proximate UEs exceeds the concentration threshold, the BBU configured to schedule the proximate wireless UEs to use proximate-UE Transmit Time Intervals (TTIs) and schedule other wireless UEs to use other TTIs;
• the BBU configured to transfer control signals to deactivate TMA amplification during the proximate-UE TTIs and to activate the TMA amplification during the other TTIs;
• and
• the TMA configured to receive UE signals, and in response to the control signals, deactivate the TMA amplification on the UE signals during the proximate-UE TTIs and activate the TMA amplification on the UE signals during the other TTIs.