Patent ID: 7339919
Filing Date: 2008-03-04
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A communicating system having a base station and a mobile station that communicate with each other wirelessly and simultaneously using frames of an uplink channel and a downlink channel, each of the frames being composed of a plurality of chronologically divided slots, a frame control message slot (FCMS) and a message data slot (MDS) being allocated to each frame of the downlink channel, with the frame control message slot, slot allocation information of the uplink channel, slot allocation information of the downlink channel, response information against data transmitted through the uplink channel, response information against a connection setup—connection release request from the mobile station, and response information against a registration—deregistration request from the mobile station being transmitted from the base station to the mobile station, the uplink channel containing a message data slot (MDS) and an activation slot (ACTS), the activation slot being composed of a plurality of mini slots each of which has a length of one frame or smaller, with the activation slot, the connection setup connection release request and the registration—deregistration request received from the mobile station being transmitted from the mobile station to the base station, with the message data slot, response information against downlink data being transmitted to the base station, wherein the base station comprises: a transmission buffer that temporarily stores data to be transmitted to the mobile station through the downlink channel; and a control data forming portion that forms the frame control message slot, wherein when the control data forming portion sets up allocation information of the uplink channel including the number of activation slots of each frame of the uplink channel, if the use rate of the transmission buffer is larger than a predetermined value, the number of activation slots contained in each frame of the uplink channel is set to zero, if the use rate of the transmission buffer is not larger than the predetermined value, a collision probability is obtained according to detected collisions contained in the response information against the downlink data, if the collision probability is smaller than a predetermined value, the number of activation slots contained in each frame of the uplink channel is set to 1, and if the collision probability is larger than the predetermined value, the number of activation slots is increased to 2 or higher value.