Patent ID: 8606323
Filing Date: 2013-12-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A base station for a system encompassing multiple areas in each of which one or more radio systems are available and system information necessary to connect to the one or more radio systems is transmitted via a control signal to a terminal equipment, the base station comprising: an internal-area information memory configured to store the system information necessary to connect to the one or more radio systems in an area to which the base station belongs; an external-area transmission method information memory configured to store external-area transmission method information that includes information indicating whether a broadcast transmission method or an on-demand transmission method is used as a method of transmitting the control signal in an area adjacent to the area to which the base station belongs; and a transmitter configured to transmit the control signal including the system information stored in the internal-area information memory or the external-area transmission method information to the terminal equipment, wherein the control signal including the external-area transmission method information is transmitted at regular or irregular transmission timings.