Patent ID: 8467336

Claim:
A system comprising: a large service area (LSA) base station having a LSA geographical service area and configured to provide wireless communication service to first mobile communication devices; a small service area (SSA) base station having a SSA geographical service area at least partially overlapping the LSA geographical service area to form an overlap service region, the SSA base station configured to provide wireless communication service to second mobile devices, wherein the first mobile communication devices and the second mobile communication devices are within the overlap region and require primary synchronization information to communicate with the LSA base station and the SSA base station; and a controller configured to: allocate transmission of the primary synchronization information from at least one of the LSA base station and the SSA base station over a physical channel having a transmission time defined by a communication specification and a transmission frequency defined by the communication specification, wherein, if both base stations are allocated to transmit the primary synchronization information, both base stations are allocated to transmit the primary synchronization information over the physical channel; and assign a first transmission power weighting for transmitting the primary synchronization information from the LSA base station and a second transmission power weighting for transmitting the primary synchronization information from the SSA base station, the assigning of the first transmission power weighting and the second transmission power weighting at least partially based on a bit error rate (BER) of a combined signal representing the primary synchronization information at a receiving mobile communication device within the overlap service region, the BER measured after the receiving mobile communication device combines transmissions from the LSA base station and the SSA base station to generate the combined signal.