Patent ID: 8437763

Claim:
A broadband wireless network base station comprising: a wired backbone interface to communicate with a plurality of macro base stations and a plurality of femto base stations; and control logic, the control logic to: identify femto base stations that a mobile station is authorized to access as part of a closed subscriber group (CSG); filter the identified femto base stations based on at least one of a location of the mobile station, a location of the femto base station, and a default status of the femto base station, to generate a filtered list of one or more authorized femto base stations; generate a scan request for the mobile station that identifies one of the authorized femto base stations of the filtered list; transmit the scan request to cause the mobile station to scan for the femto base station identified in the scan request for handover initiation from a serving macro base station to the femto base station identified in the scan request; and generate and transmit another request for the mobile station to scan for another identified femto base stations of the authorized femto base stations of the filtered list when the femto base station identified in a prior scan request is not found.