Patent ID: 8879446

Claim:
A method for transmitting a common control channel to a mobile terminal in a first communication sector among a plurality of communication sectors of a macro base station (BS), the method performed by a femto BS and comprising: receiving segment information from the macro BS, the segment information including information related to a first time-segment associated with the first communication sector, wherein the first time-segment indicates a group of physical resource units used by the macro BS to transmit a common control channel of the macro BS to the mobile terminal, and wherein each of the plurality of communication sectors is associated with at least one time-segment among a plurality of time-segments used by a BS to transmit the common control channel; selecting a communication sector from among the plurality of communication sectors except the first communication sector, the selection based on the received segment information; selecting a time-segment associated with the selected communication sector, the selection based on the received segment information; and transmitting a common control channel of the femto BS to the mobile terminal through the selected time-segment.