Patent ID: 7751817

Claim:
A method of scanning neighboring base stations for measuring channel quality in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving from a serving base station information associated with at least one neighboring base station; transmitting a scanning request message from a mobile subscriber station to the serving base station, the scanning request message comprising a requested scan duration, a requested interleaving interval and a requested scan iteration, wherein the requested scan iteration is associated with a requested number of iterations of the scanning of the at least one neighboring base station and the requested interleaving interval is interleaved between each scan; and receiving a scanning response message from the serving base station, the scanning response message comprising an allowed scan duration, an allowed interleaving interval, a scan report mode and an allowed scan iteration, wherein the allowed scan iteration is associated with an allowed number of iterations of the scanning of the at least one neighboring base station, the allowed interleaving interval is interleaved between each scan and the scan report mode indicates that the mobile subscriber station reports a result of a measurement to the serving base station periodically.