Apparatus, method and computer program product providing distribution of segmented system information

摘要

A method comprising: selectively segmenting or not segmenting a message that comprises system information, where segmenting is into K segments and K is an integer greater than one; for the case of segmenting, selecting from a predetermined set of system information message types a message type that is defined to have a header field with information for segmenting; sending in a first message an indication of the number K of segments; and sending in serially spaced messages on a shared channel a series of K messages of the selected type, each k th message comprising a k th segment of the K segments and an indication in a header of the k th message of length of the k th segment, wherein k runs from 1 through K.