Patent ID: 6721303
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: H04B,H04W

Abstract:
A method for configuring a radio interface between a mobile station and a base station of a time-division multiplex mobile radio system for packet data transmission, the method comprising:defining a transmission from the mobile station to the base station as an uplink direction; defining a transmission from the base station to the mobile station as a downlink direction; forming a channel by at least one time slot per time-division multiplex frame; enabling the packet data transmission from a plurality of mobile stations via the channel; providing a time slot per frame for signaling at cyclic intervals in the channel; allocating an exclusive time slot for signaling in the uplink direction by the base station to the mobile station in accordance with a predetermined sequence, and allocating common time slots in the downlink direction to the mobile station and to other mobile stations, wherein the allocation of the exclusive time slot for signaling is independent of whether any packet data transmission from or to the mobile station occurs at the same time, and the exclusive time slot for signaling is used by the plurality of mobile stations according to the predetermined sequence; and transmitting, in the common time slots, configuration data for setting the transmission power.