Patent ID: 7853286

Claim:
A method of communicating neighbor base station information in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, from a management entity to a neighbor base station, a request message that originates at a serving base station for requesting the neighbor base station information; receiving, by the management entity from the neighbor base station, a first response message including the neighbor base station information, wherein the neighbor base station information includes physical channel information for connecting to the neighbor base station, parameters for an uplink channel descriptor (UCD), and parameters for a downlink channel descriptor (DCD); transmitting, from management entity to a serving base station, a first message that originates at the management entity and includes the neighbor base station information; broadcasting at a first periodic interval a first neighbor advertisement message including the neighbor base station information from the serving base station to all mobile subscriber stations existing within a corresponding cell of the serving base station; receiving, by the management entity from the neighbor base station, a second response message including updated neighbor base station information at a second periodic interval without requesting the neighbor base station information from the management entity when there is a change in the neighbor base station information, wherein the updated neighbor base station information includes at least updated physical channel information for connecting to the neighbor base station, updated parameters for a UCD, or updated parameters for a DCD; transmitting, from the management entity to the serving base station, a second message that originates at the management entity and includes the updated neighbor base station information; and broadcasting a second neighbor advertisement message following the first periodic interval from the serving base station to all mobile subscriber stations existing within the corresponding cell of the serving base station, wherein the second neighbor advertisement message includes the updated neighbor base station information.