Patent ID: 8477690

Claim:
A method, comprising: configuring a transmission plan for a downlink location based services (D-LBS) zone based at least in part on resources available for transmission of location beacons, wherein the transmission plan comprises a pseudorandom transmission plan that assigns different base stations for transmission on different resources of the D-LBS zone to perform measurements of signal location parameters from multiple base stations or relay stations, or combinations thereof, of a network; setting a pseudorandom number generator to an initial value that depends on a cell identification if a superframe or a frame count is zeroed; for subsequently allocated D-LBS zones, calculating a recursion using the pseudorandom number generator and an initial cell identification value of the station; transmitting configuration parameters for the D-LBS zone from said configuring; and transmitting one or more location beacon signals on an assigned resource of the D-LBS zone based at least in part on the calculated recursion value.