Patent ID: 8582512

Claim:
A method of controlling transmission of downlink data through a downlink common transport channel at a base station in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, by the base station, a random access preamble from a user equipment; transmitting a response to the random access preamble from the base station to the user equipment; receiving, by a radio network controller (RNC), a radio resource control (RRC) message on the random access channel from the user equipment, the RRC message comprising measurement information which includes a result of measurement performed by the user equipment; transmitting the measurement information which includes the result of measurement from the RNC to the base station after receiving the RRC message from the user equipment; and determining, by the base station, at least one of a data rate and transmission power for transmission of downlink data to the user equipment on the downlink common transport channel based on the measurement information received from the RNC.