Abstract: An apparatus and a method manage power of a small base station. Whether a notify message indicating that a subscribed terminal enters a macro base station that includes an off-small base station is received from the macro base station under a closed access mode is determined. When the notify message is received, whether a service is providable to the subscribed terminal is determined. When the service is providable to the subscribed terminal, the small base station is turned on. During the closed access mode or when a load of a macro cell is large during an open access mode, when a terminal that should be serviced does not exist in the neighborhood of a small base station, an interference and power consumption unnecessarily generated may be reduced by turning off the small base station.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing initial network entry in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A communication method includes broadcasting, by a Base Station (BS), a Downlink Channel Descriptor (DCD) message including information on a different Frequency Allocation (FA) of the BS using all FAs; connecting, by one of a plurality of Media Access Control (MAC) processors of a Mobile Station (MS), using an arbitrary FA of the BS; obtaining, by the MS, information on the different FA of the BS by analyzing the DCD message received using the arbitrary FA; and performing, by one or more of the remaining MAC processors of the MS, a network entry process using the different FA of the BS according to the different FA information.

Abstract: A method and apparatus allocates a Physical Cell Identifier (PCID) in a wireless communication system by considering a PCID reuse factor. An allowable PCID list is acquired from a server. A set of candidate PCIDs is determined from the allowable PCID list according to PCID allocation conditions. A received signal strength of each cell using the determined set of candidate PCID is determined. At least one PCID is selected by using a PCID reuse factor and the received signal strength of each of the cells using the determined set of candidate PCIDs.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for configuration and optimization of an Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR) in a wireless communication system are provided. The method of configuring the ANR by a Base Station (BS) in the wireless communication system includes receiving a measurement report message for reporting a neighbor cell's signal quality from one or more User Equipments (UEs), determining a neighbor cell, reported from a UE in an area where a serving cell's signal quality is greater than a first reference value, as an Overlay Neighbor (ON), among neighbor cells reported using the measurement report message, and determining a neighbor cell, reported from a UE in an area where the serving cell's signal quality is less than a second reference value, as a Horizontal Neighbor (HN), among the neighbor cells reported using the measurement report message, wherein the second reference value is set to a value smaller than the first reference value.

Abstract: A method for allocating a band Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) channel in a wireless communication system that divides a full frequency band into a plurality of subcarrier bands and includes subchannels, each of which is a set of a predetermined number of neighbor subcarrier bands. Upon recognizing a need for a band AMC channel, a subscriber station (SS) sends a request for allocation of the band AMC channel to a base station (BS). Upon receiving the band AMC channel allocation request, the BS determines if it can allocate the band AMC channel requested by the SS, considering a resource situation of the BS, and transmits information on the determination to the SS.

Abstract: An apparatus and operation method of a Mobile Station (MS) for ranging in a broadband wireless access communication system includes receiving information for ranging code hopping from a Base Station (BS). The MS determines a hopping offset value that is a start of a ranging codes group using the information for ranging code hopping. The MS also determines a ranging codes group using the hopping offset value, and randomly selects at least one or more ranging codes among the determined ranging codes group and transmitting the selected ranging codes to the BS.

Abstract: A wireless communication network includes an apparatus and method for dynamically allocating frequencies of a femto Base Station (BS). An operation of the femto BS includes measuring received signal strength on system Frequency Allocations (FAs) of a plurality of macro BSs, determining maximum received signal strengths for the respective FAs, and determining an available FA set by using a result obtained from comparison between the maximum received signal strengths for the respective FAs with a first threshold.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining a position of a compact Base Station (BS) by using user supplied location information in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal using a GPS receiver, receiving location information supplied by a user, comparing a strength of the GPS signal with a threshold, if the strength of the GPS signal is greater than the threshold, obtaining position information of the BS using the GPS signal, and if the strength to the GPS signal is less than or equal to the threshold, obtaining the position information of the BS using the location information.

Abstract: A method and system for controlling a location update of a Mobile Station (MS) and paging the MS, taking into account location characteristics of the MS in a communication system are provided. The system for controlling the location update includes the MS for receiving a broadcasting message from a preferred BS during a PLI, for determining whether a paging group is changed, for verifying lazy location update information in the broadcasting message to delay a location update of the MS, if the paging group is changed and for updating a location of the MS according to the lazy location update information.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for supporting a handover between a home cell and a macro cell in a wireless communication system are provided. A communicating method includes storing, at a mobile station (MS), information regarding a home cell to a memory; determining, at the mobile station, whether a stored neighbor base station (BS) list of the home cell includes a first base station; and when the neighbor base station list includes the first base station, scanning, at the mobile station, a home base station using the pre-registered home cell information.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting a handover from a macro Base Station (BS) to a micro BS in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a user layer for requesting scanning information on micro BSs among neighbor BSs and an MIH function for obtaining the scanning information on the micro BSs by interoperating with an MIH server according to the request and for transmitting the obtained information to the user layer. Accordingly, the handover from the macro BS to the micro BS can be achieved.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for rolling back operation parameters of a base station in a self-configurable broadband wireless communication system are provided, in which in a manager server, an optimizer for determining optimized operation parameters of the base station based on information which is needed to optimize and is received from the base station, an evaluator for calculating service level of the base station using the optimized operation parameters, and a controller for requesting to roll back the optimized operation parameters when the service level is greater than or equal to a first threshold value.

Abstract: In a communication system, a base station transmits a message including neighbor base station information to a mobile station, wherein neighbor base stations in the base station include m first type neighbor base stations and n second type neighbor base stations, the message includes an identifier dedicatedly allocated to the mobile station when the mobile station can get a service from one of the n second type neighbor base stations, the first type is different from the second type, the neighbor base station information includes information on the n second type neighbor base stations, and each of m and n is an integer identical to or greater than 1.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing initial network entry in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A communication method includes broadcasting, by a Base Station (BS), a Downlink Channel Descriptor (DCD) message including information on a different Frequency Allocation (FA) of the BS using all FAs; connecting, by one of a plurality of Media Access Control (MAC) processors of a Mobile Station (MS), using an arbitrary FA of the BS; obtaining, by the MS, information on the different FA of the BS by analyzing the DCD message received using the arbitrary FA; and performing, by one or more of the remaining MAC processors of the MS, a network entry process using the different FA of the BS according to the different FA information.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for performing handover in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A communication method includes broadcasting, by a Base Station (BS), a neighbor advertisement message including neighbor cell information through each Frequency Allocation (FA); analyzing the neighbor cell advertise message by a plurality of Media Access Control (MAC) processors of an Mobile Station (MS) to obtain FA configuration information of each neighbor cell; independently determining handover by the MAC processors of the MS; generating the start of handover by one MAC which first determines handover; and determining a handover target by the remaining MAC processors so that handover is performed to different FAs of the same BS of the MAC processor which generates the start of handover by using the FA configuration information of each neighbor cell.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting different frame structures in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A communication method of a Base Station (BS) includes determining a frame structure to be provided. A MAP message including an indicator that indicates a new standard is generated, when the provided frame structure conforms to the new standard. The generated MAP message is transmitted by performing physical layer encoding thereon. Accordingly, signaling is defined to report a currently provided frame structure to an MS, and thus, a system can support different frame structures.

Abstract: Provided is a method supporting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) between a subscriber station and a base station in a broadband wireless access communication system. The method includes transmitting at least one HARQ enabled uplink burst from the subscriber station to the base station; generating ACKnowledgment/Negative ACKnowledgment (ACK/NACK) information according to the received HARQ enabled uplink burst at the base station; mapping the generated ACK/NACK information to a bitmap at the base station; and transmitting the bitmap through a downlink information from the base station to the subscriber station.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for ranging in a broadband wireless communication system. In a method for communication of a base station, a received signal and ranging codes are correlated to detect codes. Feedback information for the detected codes is generated, and a ranging feedback message including the generated feedback information is generated. The ranging feedback message is physical-layer-encoded and the resulting data are broadcast. The base station combines and broadcasts data region allocation information and control information for ranging codes received from a plurality of mobile stations. Therefore, resources can be saved and a signalling process can be simplified.

Abstract: A handover method and apparatus for reducing a time delay during handover in a communication system is provided. A Mobile Station (MS) transmits a serving Base Station (BS) a first message indicating that the MS will perform handover to a target BS and the first message includes information for requesting a second message indicating a response to the successful receipt of the first message.

Abstract: A method for controlling operation modes of a medium access control layer by a mobile subscriber station in a broadband wireless access communication system including the mobile subscriber station and a serving base station providing service to the mobile subscriber station is provided. The method includes the steps of: mode-transiting into an idle mode when there is no data transmission between the serving base station and the mobile subscriber station during a predetermined first time interval in an awake mode; detecting movement of the mobile subscriber station in the idle mode into another paging zone covering a target base station, which is different from a paging zone covering the serving base station; and mode-transiting into the awake mode and performing location update together with the target base station when the movement of the mobile subscriber station is detected.