Patent ID: 8521164

Claim:
A method for allowing a femto base station to perform beaconing in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: obtaining a System Information Block (SIB) message of a neighbor macro base station transmitted to a terminal by the neighbor macro base station; adding information of the femto base station to the obtained SIB message of the macro base station and updating the same; transmitting the updated SIB message to the terminal; adding information indicating existence of the updated SIB message to an indication message; and transmitting the indication message to the terminal, wherein the obtained SIB message comprises a SIB 5 message, and wherein the adding of information indicating existence of the updated SIB message to the indication message comprises: obtaining a SIB 1 message of the macro base station transmitted by the macro base station to the terminal; and adding information indicating existence of the updated SIB 5 message to the obtained SIB 1 message of the macro base station as the indication message and updating the same, wherein the transmitting of the indication message to the terminal comprises transmitting the updated SIB 1 message as the indication message to the terminal.