摘要 |
A paging attribute descriptor (PAD) indicates the content of a page message is transmitted in a first time slot and/or a succeeding second time slot of a physical channel, and the page message is transmitted in the second time slot. The second slot may be, for example, a Digital Control Channel (DCCH) slot mapped on a physical channel (DTCH) of an IS-136 system. The transmitted PAD is recovered at wireless station, which then determines whether to recover the page message based on the recovered PAD, e.g., if the PAD indicates that the page message is an empty page message, a page message addresed to another wireless station or a page message that includes control information that has changed. For example, in an IS-136 compliant system, the PAD may be transmitted in the coded superframe phase (CSFP) field of a Paging Channel (PCH) message transmitted in a Digital Control Channel (DCCH) slot, or in reserved bits of a slot preceding a PCH message. |