Patent ID: 8705501

Claim:
A method that facilitates a communication between access points, the method comprising: establishing a backhaul connection between an access point base station and a neighboring base station; exchanging information associated with an external neighbor parameter via the backhaul connection, wherein the external neighbor parameter includes extended neighbor information pertaining to an extended neighbor base station, the extended neighbor base station being at least one hop away from the neighboring base station, the extended neighbor base station comprising neighbors of a neighboring evolved NodeB (eNB) or evolved Home NodeB (HeNB); self-configuring an internal neighbor parameter comprising a neighbor relation table as a function of the external neighbor parameter; transmitting an internal configuration update, wherein the internal configuration update is based on the internal neighbor parameter; triggering the transmitting according to a trigger; ascertaining a transmission pattern pertaining to a plurality of external configuration updates; detecting an activation of the access point base station; and ascertaining a random time offset, the transmitting delayed based on the random time offset, wherein the trigger is based at least in part on at least one of the transmission pattern or the activation.