Patent ID: 9603030
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A wireless communication system in a heterogeneous network, comprising: a macro cell in which wireless communications are hosted for a first set of mobile devices and multiple low power nodes that serve as proxies for a second set of mobile devices; and a cell identifier (ID) allocator configured to: identify a series of numeric values as multiple candidate cell IDs, randomly select a first cell ID, from the multiple candidate cell IDs, for the macro cell, identify a subset of the multiple candidate cell IDs associated with the first cell ID, determine mathematical distinction by calculating, for each of the multiple candidate cell IDs, a remainder of division of the candidate cell ID by a predetermined number, allocate a cell ID for each of the multiple low power nodes that has a respective mathematical distinction from the identified subset of the multiple candidate cell IDs, and configure each of the multiple low power nodes and the macro cell to use the allocated cell IDs to operate the wireless communication system.