Digital distributed antenna systems and methods for advanced cellular communication protocols

Digital distributed antenna systems and methods for advanced cellular communication protocols are provided. In one embodiment, a digital distributed antenna system comprises: a host unit; a plurality of remote antenna units each communicatively coupled to the host unit, wherein a downlink digitized RF signal is transported from the host unit to at least one of the plurality of remote antenna units, and wherein the at least one of the remote antenna units is configured to generate an analog RF signal from the downlink digitized RF signal; and a signal conditioning and control module that extracts from a first digitized RF signal at least one data stream and converts the at least one data stream to baseband data.