Patent ID: 9113368
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for communication, comprising: a processing system configured to provision at least one access terminal to report physical layer identifiers of cells detected by the at least one access terminal, wherein the provisioning comprises: defining different subsets of a superset of physical layer identifiers, and successively transmitting the different subsets to the at least one access terminal to successively identify all cells of the superset that are detectable by the at least one access terminal; and a communication device configured to receive measurement report messages as a result of the provisioning, wherein the measurement report messages identify physical layer identifiers of the cells detected by the at least one access terminal, wherein: the processing system is further configured to maintain a neighbor cell list for the apparatus based on the received measurement report messages, and the communication device is further configured to broadcast the neighbor cell list.