Patent ID: 8477711

Claim:
A base system comprising: a transceiving system for receiving information from, and transmitting information to, at least one other base station and a plurality of remote devices; and an apparatus in communication with the transceiving system and configured for determining a communication allocation to select ones of the plurality of remote devices, the apparatus comprising: a processor in communication with a memory, the memory including code which when accessed by the processor causes the processor to: obtain an available communication allocation from a reservation map of communication allocations associated with the base station, wherein the communication allocation comprises allocation of at least one frequency and at least one associated time slot; receive a communication allocation mapping of each of the least one other base stations operating in cooperation with the base station; determine a suitability of the obtained available communication allocation in view of communication allocations among the received communication allocation mappings; provide an indication within the reservation map for indicating an assignment of the available communication allocation when the obtained available communication is determined to be suitable; and provide an updated reservation map to each of the cooperating base stations; and wherein a determination to register one of the plurality of the remote devices for receiving information from the base station is carried out at the remote device.