COMMON ORDERS FOR A SHARED CONTROL CHANNEL

摘要

A radio base station (10) communicates with user equipments (UEs) (20) over a radio interface on a shared control channel in a cell coverage area. A common control channel order (18) is determined for transmission over the shared control channel for a group of multiple UEs in the cell. The common control channel order is associated with a common control channel order identifier and transmitted in the cell over the shared control channel. A UE in the cell coverage area that is shared by multiple UEs receives the common control channel order signal transmitted to the group of multiple UEs over the shared control channel and processes the common control channel order signal to detect the common control channel signal identifier. If the UE determines that common control channel signal identifier matches a common control channel signal identifier previously configured for or stored in each of the UEs in the group, then the UE processes the common control channel order and performs one or more actions in response to the processed common control channel order. In a UTRAN example, an RNC(30) generate sand sends the common control channel order identifier to the base station, which in turn, sends the common control channel order identifier to each of the UEs in the group. Then, the base station transmits the common control channel order over the shared control channel to a group of multiple UEs in the cell.