摘要 |
A method of requesting a radio interface common reconfiguration, a base station, a method of performing a radio interface common reconfiguration, user equipment and computer program products are disclosed. The method of requesting a radio interface common reconfiguration to be made by each of a group of user equipment from within a plurality of user equipment being supported by a base station in a multi-carrier wireless communications system comprises the steps of: determining the radio interface common reconfiguration to be made by each of the group of user equipment; encoding the radio interface common reconfiguration in a payload field of an high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) order; encoding, in the HS-SCCH order, an indication associating the HS-SCCH order with the group of user equipment; and transmitting the HS-SCCH order to the plurality of user equipment being supported by the base station. Hence, a single message can be sent to a group of user equipment to cause that group of user equipment to make a common reconfiguration of their radio interface which reduces the amount of time taken to perform the reconfiguration and minimises the amount of resources utilised to effect the reconfiguration.
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