Patent ID: 8538406

Claim:
A method of operating a femto base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving an access request comprising a closed subscriber group (CSG) identifier (ID) from user equipment (UE); determining a number N of UE accessing the femto BS; ascertaining an access type to determine whether the UE is a CSG UE or a non-CSG UE of the femto BS on the basis of the CSG ID of the UE; and determining whether to admit access of the UE on the basis of the access type, the N and access admittable information, the access admittable information comprising U CSG , i.e., a maximum number of CSG UE of which access is admitted; U ALL , i.e., a maximum number of non-CSG UE of which access is admitted; and U MAX , i.e., a maximum number of UE of which access is admitted, wherein the method further comprises: receiving an operation mode changing instruction from a macro BS; and resetting the access admittable information on the basis of the operation mode changing instruction, wherein if the operation mode changing instruction indicates an opened mode that provides services regardless of the access type of the UE, the access admittable information is reset as follows: U CSG =0, U ALL =U MAX .