Patent ID: 8639211
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: H04H,H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile communication method comprising the steps of: (A) transmitting, from a radio base station to a plurality of cells designated by a transmission request received from a switching center, broadcast information; (B) transmitting, from the radio base station to the switching center, a transmission response which includes an information element to which a number of cells and identification information of the cells are set, in accordance with the transmission request; and (C) receiving, at the switching center, the transmission response; wherein, in the step (B), when the broadcast information is successfully transmitted to at least one of the plurality of cells, the radio base station sets a number of cells to which the broadcast information was successfully transmitted and identification information of the cells, as the number of cells and the identification information of the cells in the information element; in the step (B), when the broadcast information is not successfully transmitted to all the plurality of cells, the radio base station transmits a transmission response which does not include the information element; and in the step (C), when the switching center receives the transmission response which does not include the information element, the switching center detects occurrence of a failure in the radio base station.