Patent ID: 8498283

Claim:
A method for transferring, in a wireless cellular telecommunication network, a sequence enabling identification of a home base station, by a mobile terminal located in a cell of the home base station, symbols transferred between the home base station and the mobile terminal being separated by a guard period, the method, performed by the home base station, comprising: receiving, at the home base station, from neighbouring base stations or neighbouring home base stations, sequences enabling the identification of said neighbouring base stations or said neighbouring home base stations; selecting one received sequence enabling the identification of one neighbouring base station or one neighbouring home base station upon determination that all available sequences for the wireless network have been received by the home base station; and shifting a start of a transfer of a frame of symbols in the cell of the home base station from a start of a reception of a frame of symbols transferred by said one neighbouring base station or said one neighbouring home base station which is identified with the selected received sequence by a time duration which is equal to or greater than the guard period, the frame of symbols in the cell of the home base station including the selected sequence enabling the identification of said one neighbouring base station or said one neighbouring home base station.