Patent ID: 8170029

Claim:
An intermittent communication system where an intermittent communication can be made between a base station apparatus and a mobile station apparatus, wherein the mobile station apparatus comprises a transmitting unit configured to transmit a request to start a normal communication after stopping an intermittent communication at timing different from the intermittent communication if a handover is determined to be required, a transiting unit configured to transit from the intermittent communication to the normal communication after the transmitting unit transmits the request, and a handover performing unit configured to perform a handover upon completion of transiting to the normal communication by the transiting unit, wherein the request is transmitted from the mobile station apparatus to the base station apparatus by using a common channel, and wherein the request is generated as information of a physical layer and transmitted by the transmitting unit if a period of making the intermittent communication is larger than a threshold value, or the request is generated as information of a network layer and transmitted at transmission timing of the intermittent communication if the period is equal to or smaller than the threshold value.