Common control channel access

摘要

A Mobile Station, MS (115), for a cellular communications network (100), arranged to be camped on one of a plurality of k available Common Control Channels, CCCHs, in a cell (105) in the cellular communications network (100), the MS (115) also being arranged to make successive attempts at uplink CCCH access until the MS (115) gains CCCH access. The MS (115) is arranged to make CCCH access attempt number i on CCCH number x, where x is in the range of 1 . . . k, with x determined by a function in the MS (115). Also, a network node, (110), for a cellular communications network, arranged to transmit System Information messages, to the MSs (115) in a cell, and arranged to insert an Information Element, an IE, in an SI message, which IE defines which CCCHs in the cell that an MS (115) may use for uplink CCCH access attempts.

主权项

1. A Mobile Station (MS) for a cellular communications network, arranged to be camped on one of a plurality of k available Common Control Channels (CCCHs) in a cell in the cellular communications network, and to make successive attempts at uplink CCCH access until the MS gains CCCH access, and wherein the MS is further arranged to make CCCH access attempt number i on CCCH number x, where x is in the range of 1 . . . k, where x is determined by a function fi in the MS.