A base station serving a network, the base station comprising: a receiver, transmitter, and baseband processor for facilitating wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, technology communications with mobile stations; and a control system associated with the receiver, transmitter and baseband processor and adapted to: determine a first version of control information for at least two of the mobile stations, wherein said at least two of the mobile stations include one or more mobile stations operating in an active mode and one or more mobile stations operating in an idle mode; transmit the first version of the control information to the at least two of the mobile stations; transmit a first value of a version number corresponding to the first version of the control information periodically, wherein said transmission of the first value indicates that the first version of the control information should be in effect and in current use at the at least two of the mobile stations, wherein the version number represents a count of changes that have been applied to the control information; determine a second version of the control information for the at least two of the mobile stations to begin using in the future, in place of the control information in current use; and transmit the second version of the control information; and transmit an alert flag to the at least two of the mobile stations, wherein the alert flag indicates that the second version of the control information is different from the first version of the control information. a receiver, transmitter, and baseband processor for facilitating wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, OFDM, technology communications with mobile stations; and a control system associated with the receiver, transmitter and baseband processor and adapted to: determine a first version of control information for at least two of the mobile stations, wherein said at least two of the mobile stations include one or more mobile stations operating in an active mode and one or more mobile stations operating in an idle mode; transmit the first version of the control information to the at least two of the mobile stations; transmit a first value of a version number corresponding to the first version of the control information periodically, wherein said transmission of the first value indicates that the first version of the control information should be in effect and in current use at the at least two of the mobile stations, wherein the version number represents a count of changes that have been applied to the control information; determine a second version of the control information for the at least two of the mobile stations to begin using in the future, in place of the control information in current use; and transmit the second version of the control information; and transmit an alert flag to the at least two of the mobile stations, wherein the alert flag indicates that the second version of the control information is different from the first version of the control information. determine a first version of control information for at least two of the mobile stations, wherein said at least two of the mobile stations include one or more mobile stations operating in an active mode and one or more mobile stations operating in an idle mode; transmit the first version of the control information to the at least two of the mobile stations; transmit a first value of a version number corresponding to the first version of the control information periodically, wherein said transmission of the first value indicates that the first version of the control information should be in effect and in current use at the at least two of the mobile stations, wherein the version number represents a count of changes that have been applied to the control information; determine a second version of the control information for the at least two of the mobile stations to begin using in the future, in place of the control information in current use; and transmit the second version of the control information; and transmit an alert flag to the at least two of the mobile stations, wherein the alert flag indicates that the second version of the control information is different from the first version of the control information.