CPC H04W 16/22 (2013.01) [H04W 84/045 (2013.01)] | 44 Claims |
1. A small cell for selecting a physical cell identifier (PCI), comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
determine a provisioned list of PCI values;
sort the PCI values in the provisioned list into a sorted list based on a repeating predetermined pattern and modulo X values of elements in the provisioned list, where X is a predetermined integer; and
select, for each sector implemented by the small cell, a PCI value from the sorted list based on a sector ID of the sector.
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