Patent ID: 7623866

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a first message from an overlapped base station, wherein the overlapped base station has a first coverage area, and wherein the first message comprises a location of the overlapped base station; responsive to receiving the first message, identifying a set of one or more overlapping base stations based at least in part on the location of the overlapped base station, wherein each overlapping base station has a respective coverage area that overlaps the first coverage area, and wherein each overlapping base station further has a respective neighbor list that includes a neighbor set of one or more neighboring base stations of that overlapping base station; generating a first neighbor list comprising the union of the set of overlapping base stations and the neighbor set of each overlapping base station; and sending a second message to the overlapped base station, wherein the second message comprises the first neighbor list, wherein the overlapped base station receives the second message and broadcasts the first neighbor list in the first coverage area.