Method for selective antenna activation and per antenna or antenna group power assignments in cooperative signaling wireless mimo systems

A cooperative signaling MIMO system comprising:

• a plurality of cooperative controllers, wherein each of the plurality of controllers has a set of antennas and each antenna in the set is selectively activated in accordance with an allocation that varies over one or both of time and frequency, and
• wherein each controller includes a coordinator to selectively activate or deactivate each antenna.

An article of manufacture having one or more computer readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by one or more controllers cause the one or more controllers to perform a method for use in a cooperative signaling MIMO system in which antennas are located a plurality of different locations across a geographic area, the system comprising a plurality of different cooperative MIMO controllers and a plurality of antennas that can be communicably coupled to each of the controllers, the method comprising:

• at different transmission times, selectively activating one or more antennas in the cooperative signaling MIMO system to vary which antennas are active antennas among antennas that can be used for each of the controllers in the system,
• including applying a power pattern which specifies per antenna or per antenna group power assignments for the one or more antennas being selectively activated,
• and performing cooperative MIMO transmission under control of each controller in conformance with antenna activation and antenna power assignments assigned for each transmission time.