Central scheduling multi-board architecture for wireless transceiver station

A transceiver station providing wireless resources for cells on a plurality of carriers in a geographical coverage area, the geographical coverage area being divided into a plurality of sectors, the transceiver station comprising:

• a first board including a L1 processing circuit configured to perform L1 processing functions on at least one of radio frequency antenna streams and downlink transmit data for users in the cells on a per-carrier basis;
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• a second board including a scheduler configured to schedule at least one of uplink and downlink transmissions for the cells on a per-sector basis, the second board being separate from, but interconnected with the first board.

A method for scheduling transmissions at a transceiver station providing wireless resources for cells on a plurality of carriers in a geographical coverage area, the geographical coverage area being divided into a plurality of sectors, the method comprising:

• performing, at a first board at the transceiver station, L1 processing functions on at least one of radio frequency antenna streams and downlink transmit data for users in the cells on a per-carrier basis;
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• scheduling, at a second board at the transceiver station, at least one of uplink and downlink transmissions for the cells on a per-sector basis.