Patent ID: 9686795
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04J,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method for a wireless network, wherein the wireless network includes a plurality of first-configuration sectors that have a first frequency assignment and a plurality of second-configuration sectors that have a second, different assignment, and wherein the plurality of first-configuration sectors include a plurality of border sectors that border at least one of the second-configuration sectors and a plurality of non-border sectors that do not border any of the second-configuration sectors, the method comprising: determining that a primary sector serving a mobile station is one of the border sectors; transmitting to the mobile station a primary-sector reference distance corresponding to a distance between a reference point in the primary sector and a transmitter for the primary sector; and transmitting to the mobile station a neighbor list that identifies a plurality of neighbor sectors of the primary sector, wherein the plurality of neighbor sectors includes one or more first-configuration sectors and one or more second-configuration sectors; and transmitting to the mobile station, for each of the one or more second-configuration sectors, a respective neighbor-sector reference distance corresponding to a respective distance between the reference point in the primary sector and a respective transmitter for the second-configuration sector.