Patent ID: 6138037
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
A method for implementing signalling in a telecommunications network, particularly in a mobile network, in accordance with which methodone network element (BSC) serves as a master element and several other network elements serve as slave elements (BTS1 . . . BTS4) sending a transmission request for signalling information to the master element which assigns transmission turns in accordance with received transmission requests,the signalling is implemented on a signalling channel common to the slave network elements, comprising at least one time slot of the transmission frame, or part of such a time slot,characterized in thatin the transmission from the slave elements to the master elementthe capacity of the signalling channel used is divided into a first subchannel on which transmission requests are sent and to a second subchannel on which actual signalling information is sent, andthe subchannel allocated to transmission requests is further divided between several different slave elements in such a way that a pre-determined bit from the same time slot of the transmission frame is assigned for the use of transmission requests of each slave element, and thus several different slave elements can send a transmission request simultaneously to the master element.