METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BULK ACTIVATION/DEACTIVATION OF COMPONENT CARRIERS IN A WIRELESS NETWORK ENVIRONMENT

摘要

The present invention provides a method and system for bulk activation and deactivation of component carriers in a wireless communication environment. In one embodiment, spectrum farming is performed to determine availability of unused spectrum in other radio access technology (RAT) cells. If any spectrum is available, the available spectrum is used as one or more component carriers in a macro cell. Hence, one or more component carriers available in a cell of a wireless communication network is determined. The availability of the one or more component carriers in the cell is then communicated to a plurality of mobile stations via a system information block. Accordingly, each of the mobile stations are allowed to activate the one or more component carriers in the cell. Moreover, the mobile stations are scheduled on the cell associated with the activated component carriers.