Patent ID: 8634323

Claim:
A base station simulcast controller module apparatus, comprising: a communications interface including a first interface for communicating with a base station controller, and a backhaul interface for communicating with a plurality of base stations; and a processing circuit coupled with the communications interface, the processing circuit adapted to: send a message to the base station controller over the first interface, the message adapted to direct the base station controller to send downlink packets across each of the plurality of base stations for simulcast with a common sector identity (ID); and send one or more simulcasting control instructions to the plurality of base stations over the backhaul interface, the one or more simulcasting control instructions adapted to facilitate simulcasting with the sector ID from the plurality of base stations; wherein the plurality of base stations include a first group of two or more base stations for simulcasting downlink transmissions on a first carrier with the sector ID, and a second group of two or more base stations for simulcasting downlink transmissions on a second carrier with the sector ID, wherein at least one base station of the second group differs from the two or more base stations of the first group.