Patent ID: 8565208

Claim:
An apparatus for Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of directional antennas; a detector for scanning channels on which a plurality of neighboring Base Stations (BSs) operate, wherein the scanning uses the plurality of directional antennas; a controller for linking one of the plurality of directional antennas with each of the plurality of neighboring BSs, respectively; a transceiver for receiving a Coexistence Beacon Protocol (CBP) packet through one of the plurality of directional antennas linked with one of the respective neighboring BSs, and for transmitting the received CBP packet to at least one or more other of the plurality of neighboring BSs linked with at least one or more other of the plurality of directional antennas, wherein the transceiver respectively transmits two or more received CBP packets to two or more of the plurality of the neighboring BSs, and wherein the two or more CBP packets transmitted through the two or more of the plurality of directional antennas are synchronized using an independent system clock, if a distance between the apparatus and one of the neighboring BSs is different from a distance between the apparatus and another of the neighboring BSs.