Patent ID: 7289526

Claim:
A method for minimizing the access delay in a wireless communication system including at least a base station system and at least a mobile terminal having communication capability with a fixed part of a wireless communication system and being adapted to open a communication with a radio access network of the base station system so as to initiate a Temporary Block Flow establishment each time data packets are to be transmitted to the radio access network and the Temporary Block Flow being released when the transmission of the packet has been completed, comprising the steps of: requesting Temporary Block Flow establishment by means of a Radio Link Control message sent on one of a Control Channel of the radio access and Packet Random Access Channel; sending the Radio Link Control message on a TDMA slot of the Packet Random Access Channel channel; organizing the Packet Random Access Channel on a predetermined number of TDMA slots in a multiframe; grouping the TDMA slots by four to form a Packet Random Access Channel; and when the mobile terminal has at least a packet to transmit, it sends a Packet Channel Request message on the Packet Random Access Channel and the Packet Channel Request message is transmitted in a TDMA slot randomly selected among the TDMA slots that compose a first PRACH block.