Patent ID: 8837391

Claim:
A method of requesting a radio resource in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: setting, by a user equipment (UE), an expiry time for a timer; transmitting, by the UE, a radio resource request message to a base station, wherein the radio resource request message includes information explicitly specifying the expiry time, wherein the expiry time may be set variably based on a communication state, and wherein the communication state is determined by a priority of traffic, a time delay requirement of traffic, an existence of a relay station, and a use of an inter-cell cooperation, wherein if the priority of traffic is high, the expiry time is set to “long,” otherwise the expiry time is set to “short,” wherein if the time delay requirement of traffic is high, the expiry time is set to “long,” otherwise the expiry time is set to “short,” wherein if the relay station exists, the expiry time is set to “long”, otherwise the expiry time is set to “short,” wherein if the inter-cell cooperation is used, the expiry time is set to “long,” otherwise the expiry time is set to “short,” wherein the expiry time is selected by the UE from a list of a plurality of expiry times determined according to the communication state; after receiving the radio resource request message, determining, by the base station, whether the expiry time included in the radio resource request message is properly set; resetting, by the base station, the expiry time if it is determined that the expiry time is not properly set; reporting, by the base station, the reset expiry time to the UE, the reset expiry time being reported to the UE when a field indicating a radio resource location and a field indicating a radio resource amount are set to a specific value; and retransmitting, by the UE, the radio resource request message based on the reset expiry time if the UE fails to receive a radio resource allocation message within the reset expiry time.