Patent ID: 8351388

Claim:
A method of generating a protocol data unit (PDU) in wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving at least one service data unit (SDU) from an upper layer via a common logical channel, wherein the common logical channel is a common control channel (CCCH); adding a header to the received SDUs to generate the protocol data unit (PDU), wherein the header includes at least one field, and wherein the at least one field identifies a logical channel of the received service data unit (SDU) or a type of control element (CE), setting the at least one field to indicate that the at least one SDUs included in the generated PDU were received from the common control channel (CCCH), wherein an index within the at least one field is set with a special value to indicate the common control channel (CCCH), wherein the at least one field is a logical channel ID (LCID) field, wherein the index within the at least one field has a size of 5 bits, and wherein the at least one field is used for each MAC SDU, MAC control element or padding included in a MAC PDU; and delivering the generated PDU to a lower layer.