Patent ID: 8441997

Claim:
A method of self-organizing and managing a radio access network having a plurality of remote radio access point devices, the network further including at least one remote management system, the method comprising: storing access point information in the remote management system for each remote radio access point device in the network; receiving information at the remote management system from each device when each device powers up; determining, for each device that sent information, if the received information contains location information or a list of neighbor devices or both location information and a list of neighbors, and when only the list of neighbors is present, setting a neighbor list only and finding radio parameters with minimum interference with respect to the neighbor list only, when both the neighbor list and the location information are present, setting a neighbor list and potential neighbor list and finding the radio frequency parameters with minimal interference with respect to the neighbor list and the potential neighbor list, when only the location information is present, setting a potential neighbor list only and finding radio parameters with minimal interference with respect to the potential neighbor list only, and when no location information or neighbor list information is received, finding radio parameters with minimum usage; and generating and transferring to each respective device an updated configuration file that includes an assignment of an operating frequency from the applicable radio parameters.