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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2023
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Salam Akoum, Austin, TX (US);
Iyad Alfalujah, Bedminster, NJ (US);
Milap Majmundar, Austin, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system, an uplink signal at a radio unit (RU) communicating over a fronthaul interface with a distributed unit (DU) of a communication network; receiving a demodulated reference signal (DMRS) configuration at the RU; performing a beamforming procedure at the RU for one or more beams generated at the RU; and determining, in accordance with an option selected by the DU, whether to perform an equalization procedure for the uplink signal at the RU resulting in equalized user data. In accordance with the equalization procedure being performed at the RU, equalization for the uplink signal is not performed at the DU. Other embodiments are disclosed.