Patent ID: 7480277

Claim:
A signal transmission method over a forward traffic channel in cellular mobile communications that can simultaneously perform one or more high speed communications whose transmission rates are higher than or equal to a predetermined rate, and one or more low speed communications whose transmission rates are lower than the predetermined rate between a plurality of mobile stations and a base station, said signal transmission method comprising the steps of: checking, on a base station side, whether a communication request is made for a high speed communication; checking, if the communication request is made for a high speed communication, whether a total number of high speed communications performed simultaneously becomes greater than a predetermined first threshold value if the communication request is accepted; and restricting acceptance of the communication request, if the total number of high speed communications becomes greater than the first threshold value even though resources to be allocated to the requested high speed communication are available to accept the high speed communication request; wherein the step of restricting temporarily holds, if the total number of high speed communications becomes greater than the first threshold value, the communication request for an allowable time period to wait for the total number of high speed communications to become less than or equal to the first threshold value, and rejects the communication request if the total number of high speed communications does not become less than or equal to the first threshold value within the allowable time period.