RADIO ACCESS NETWORK INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER SELECTING CELL FOR PERFORMING COORDINATED MULTI-POINT TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION, AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF

According to various embodiments, a method of operating a network may comprise: obtaining, from a first cell from among a plurality of cells, information relating to the reception strength of a plurality of synchronized signal blocks (SSBs) from at least one cell from among the plurality of cells measured by first user equipment connected to the first cell, obtaining, from plurality of cells, the overlapping degrees between a first beamforming direction of a transmission signal for downlink traffic corresponding to a respective user equipment respectively connected to a respective cell among the plurality of cells and a plurality of second beamforming directions of a plurality of SSBs of the respective cell among the plurality of cells, determining, from the plurality of cells, a plurality of candidate cells for performing coordinated multi-point (COMP) with respect to the first user equipment, based on the information relating to the reception strength and the overlapping degrees, and determining at least one cell for performing COMP with respect to the first user equipment from among the plurality of candidate cells based on a comparison result of priorities set for plurality of candidate cells, respectively.