Patent ID: 7493090

Claim:
A method for transmitting a neighbor base station advertisement (MOB_NBR-ADV) message by a base station (BS) in a broadband wireless access communication system, the method comprising: transmitting the MOB_NBR-ADV message, wherein the MOB_NBR-ADV message includes a first field including m bits, where m is an integer greater than or equal to 1, wherein when m information fields can be included in the MOB_NBR-ADV message, the m bits indicate whether any of the m information fields may be omitted from the MOB_NBR-ADV message, respectively; and wherein, when a value of one of the m bits indicates that one of the m information fields may be omitted, the one of the m information fields is omitted from the MOB_NBR-ADV message, and when the value of the one of the m bits indicates that the one of the m information fields may not be omitted, the one of m information fields is not omitted from the MOB_NBR-ADV message.