Patent ID: 8755802

Claim:
A method of operating a radio node in a small cell network, the method comprising the steps of: configuring the radio node with dual identities, a first identity of the dual identities being a beacon identity and the second identity of the dual identities being a live identity; instantiating a magic PSC (primary scrambling code) in the radio node to identify the beacon identity to UE (user equipment) during cell discovery, a magic PSC being a PSC that is included in a neighbor list broadcast by a macrocell to facilitate selection; instantiating a non-magic PSC in the radio node to identify the live identity to the UE; operating the beacon identity so that the radio node transmits at a minimum signal quality level needed for reselection of the radio node by the UE from a neighboring macrocell; capturing the UE into the small cell network via reselection from the macrocell to a beacon cell using the magic PSC; enabling the UE to reselect to the live identity from the beacon identity after capture of the UE; and operating the live identity in a conventional manner for a small cell.