PAGING FOR A RADIO ACCESS NETWORK HAVING PICO BASE STATIONS

摘要

Methods and apparatus configure a femto radio base station (28f). A macro receiver of the femto radio base station (28f) is used to acquire detected coverage information of a radio access network (24). The detected coverage information is used to determine an operation parameter for use by the macro transceiver (52) of the femto radio base station (28f). In one embodiment, the detected coverage information is transmitted to a control node (26) of the radio access network. The control node (26) determines the operation parameter and communicates the operation parameter to the femto radio base station (28f). The femto radio base station (28f) is accordingly configured using the operation parameter for further operation towards UES (30) accessing the femto radio base station (28f).