Edge continued evolution, improved channel request method and system

摘要

The present invention is a method and system adapted to facilitate, between a mobile station (MS) and network, an indication of support for reduced time transmission interval (RTTI). The MS can provide a base station system (BSS) with an indication of its multislot capability within an access burst sent at the start of a contention based access. In another aspect, the MS can indicate support for a new Immediate Assignment message as the conventional Immediate Assignment message can only assign single timeslots. The present invention enables the Radio Access Network (RAN) to assign RTTI and more than one timeslot for GPRS/EDGE temporary block flows (TBFs) during an Access Grant Channel (AGCH) assignment. The method of the present invention can be implemented in a computer program product or distributed software adapted to be loaded into at least one or a plurality of memory locations and executed by at least one or a plurality of respective computer processors.

主权项

1. A method in a mobile station (MS) for reducing latency in a communications channel, the method comprising:
indicating, by the MS to a Radio Access Network, the support thereof for a reduced time transmission interval (RTTI), wherein the indicating operation further comprises inserting information in an access burst sent by the MS to the BSS at initial system access on a Random Access Channel (RACH), wherein the information indicates that the MS supports the RTTI; and, receiving, by the MS, an Immediate Assignment message sent by the RAN, wherein the Immediate Assignment message allocates to the MS more than one time slot (TS) on an uplink of the communications channel and one or more time slots on a downlink of the communications channel.