APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING A COMMON PACKET CHANNEL IN A CDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A method for broadcasting channel information, available channel and data ra te of a base station in a CDMA communication system. The base station receives information indicating that a mobile station has data to transmit, over an access preamble channel. The base station transmits use status information o f physical channels and maximum available data rate information on a status indicator channel. The mobile station receives the use status information of physical channels and the maximum available data rate information through th e status indicator channel from a base station. The mobile station transmits t o the base station an access preamble for requesting allocation of a given physical channel determined depending on the use status information and the maximum available data rate information.