Patent ID: 8126464

Claim:
A wireless communication base station apparatus comprising: a management section that manages in a layered manner preconfiguration information comprising combinations of channel setting information and indexes representing the combinations; a broadcast section that broadcasts public land mobile network level preconfiguration information comprising combinations of radio bearers and transport channels employing common settings by an operator, each combination of the public land mobile network level preconfiguration information being associated with a corresponding one of the indexes, and cell level preconfiguration information comprising combinations of physical channels employing different settings between cells, each combination of the cell level preconfiguration information being associated with a corresponding one of the indexes; a control information creating section that includes information, showing that preconfiguration information of another radio access technology has changed, in control information which is created by the control information creating section and which specifies the channel setting information by indicating a first index among the indexes representing the public land mobile network level preconfiguration information and a second index among the indexes representing the cell level preconfiguration information; and a transmitting section that transmits the created control information.