Patent ID: 7830847

Claim:
A method comprising: determining that a set of multiple low-cost Internet base stations (LCIBs) should be logically grouped; selecting respective operational parameters for each respective LCIB in the set; designating a given LCIB in the set as a primary LCIB, thereby designating the other LCIBs in the set as secondary LCIBs; configuring the primary LCIB to broadcast a pilot beacon comprising acquisition information for all of the LCIBs in the set, wherein the acquisition information comprises at least some of the operational parameters selected for each respective LCIB in the set, and further configuring the primary LCIB to operate using the operational parameters selected for the primary LCIB; and configuring each secondary LCIB to not broadcast a pilot beacon, and further configuring each secondary LCIB to operate using the respective operational parameters selected for the respective secondary LCIB.