Patent ID: 8559388

Claim:
A method for implementing a self organizing network, comprising: establishing a connection between a femto base station and a network access device configured to provide the femto base station with Internet access; establishing a backhaul connection between the femto base station and a wireless service provider's network via the Internet; establishing a wireless connection between the femto base station and one or more endpoints via a radio frequency (RF) channel; transmitting, from the femto base station to the wireless service provider's network, neighborhood RF interference information via the backhaul connection, the neighborhood RF interference information associated with one or more other femto base stations from which the femto base station has received RF transmissions; receiving RF channel re-provisioning information for the wireless connection between the femto base station and the one or more endpoints from the wireless service provider's network; re-provisioning the RF channel; and participating in a hand-off procedure to hand-off the endpoints to the re-provisioned RF channel.