Method and apparatus for setting up radio resource control connection

摘要

A method and apparatus for establishing an RRC connection are provided, in which a UE (401) compares the strength of a signal received from a serving cell with a threshold (422), upon receipt of a request for RRC connection establishment, transmits an RRC connection request message to a RAN (431), measures the strengths of signals from neighbor cells during a first time period (441) and monitors a downlink channel of the serving cell to receive a response message for the RRC connection request message during a second time period, if the signal strength of the serving cell is less than the threshold, and receives the response message from the RAN on the downlink channel (451).