摘要 |
An infrastructure equipment provides a wireless access interface for communicating data to and/or from mobile terminals in a mobile communications system. The wireless access interface provides a down-link frequency channel for communicating data to the mobile terminals and a shared control channel for communicating resource allocation messages to the mobile terminals. The resource allocation message include an identification number, such as a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI), allocated to one of the mobile terminals for indicating an allocation of one of the units of communications resource of the wireless access interface, and each of a plurality of the mobile terminals is divided into a plurality of different groups. The infrastructure equipment is adapted to form super-frames 104 comprising a plurality of the units of communications resource of the down-link channel, to transmit in a super-frame control information providing for each of the plurality of mobile terminals in a first of the groups of devices a short identification number in association with the identification number allocated to the mobile terminal by the infrastructure equipment for use in allocating the units of communications resource to the mobile terminal for the first super-frame, and to transmit in a second of the super-frames control information for the second group. |