| CPC H04B 7/08 (2013.01) | 15 Claims |

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1. An operation method of a first access point (AP), the operation method comprising:
transmitting, to a control device of a base station, channel information between the first AP and one or more user equipments (UEs) connected to the base station;
receiving allocation information determined by the control device based on the channel information
identifying a decoding entity to decode a uplink (UL) signal of each of the one or more UEs from among a plurality of APs and the control device, based on the allocation information;
directly performing a decoding operation on a first UL signal received from a first UE among the one or more UEs, based on the allocation information; and
transmitting, to the control device, a first report related to a result of the decoding operation on the first UL signal,
wherein the allocation information includes information indicating the decoding entity to decode a UL signal of each of the one or more UEs, and
wherein the base station includes the plurality of APs and the control device.
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