Patent ID: 8817742

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a broadband wireless network mobile station to receive a composite signal that includes information about a plurality of neighboring target base stations in frames from a serving base station, to process the frames from the serving base station using a subcarrier of the serving base station to obtain subcarriers being used by neighboring target base stations, to collect signal samples from the neighboring target base stations using a subcarrier of the serving base station and the information received about the neighboring target base stations, to store the signal samples of the neighboring target base stations in a sample buffer and to process the sample buffer by changing a subcarrier frequency to iteratively process each of the signal samples from the neighboring target base stations by processing the sample buffer to extract frame data received from a first of the plurality of neighboring target base stations using a first subcarrier for the first of the plurality of neighboring target base stations; and re-processing the sample buffer to extract frame data received from a second of the plurality of neighboring target base stations using a second subcarrier for the second of the plurality of neighboring target base stations; wherein the processing and the re-processing the sample buffer are iteratively performed while continuing to process frames from the serving base station using the subcarrier of the serving base station.