Selective distribution and/or reception of wireless communications signals in a non-contiguous wireless distributed communications system (wdcs) for reducing downlink transmission power and/or uplink noise

Abstract

Selective distribution and/or reception of wireless communications signals in a non-contiguous wireless distributed communications systems (WDCS) for reducing downlink transmission power and/or uplink noise is disclosed. A non-contiguous WDCS is a WDCS in which the remote units are clustered such that remote units with contiguous coverage areas receive downlink communications signals serviced by different cells to provide non-contiguous cell coverage areas. In one example, the WDCS is configured to selectively distribute, through each remote unit, only downlink communication signals for the cell that are identified as servicing the user equipment (UE) to conserve downlink power. In another example, the WDCS is configured to selectively receive uplink communications signals from remote units that contain user data from UE. Noise and/or interference signals associated with portions of the uplink communications signals that are not selectively received (e.g., blocked) are not combined with the selectively received uplink communications signals, thus reducing uplink noise.