EDGE CONTINUED EVOLUTION, IMPROVED CHANNEL REQUEST METHOD AND SYSTEM

摘要

The present invention is a method and system adapted to facilitate, betwe en a mobile station (MS) and network, an indication of support for reduced t ime transmission interval (RTTI). The MS can provide a base station system ( BSS) with an indication of its multislot capability within an access burst s ent at the start of a contention based access. In another aspect, the MS can indicate support for a new Immediate Assignment message as the conventional Immediate Assignment message can only assign single timeslots. The present invention enables the Radio Access Network (RAN) to assign RTTI and more tha n one timeslot for GPRS/EDGE temporary block flows (TBFs) during an Access G rant Channel (AGCH) assignment. The method of the present invention can be i mplemented in a computer program product or distributed software adapted to be loaded into at least one or a plurality of memory locations and executed by at least one or a plurality of respective computer processors.