Patent ID: 8606272
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. For use in a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) capable of communicating with a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs), wherein at least some of the BSs are Femtocell BSs (FBSs) and at least some of the BSs are Macrocell BSs (MBSs), a method for identifying the BSs at an MS, the method comprising: receiving at least one of a globally unique BS ID and an Operator ID from an FBS via a Broadcast CHannel (BCH); deriving a Closed Subscriber Group IDentifier (CSG ID) from the received at least one of the globally unique BS ID and the Operator ID; and determining, based on the derived CSG ID, if the FBS is a CSG FBS to which the MS is subscribed.