Patent ID: 7738436

Claim:
A wireless communication system for performing wireless communication using a control channel and a plurality of call channels which can be assigned to any one of a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses specified by information transmitted on said control channel, said system comprising: a channel control apparatus which transmits on a single control channel frame structured information having at least three areas of a synchronizing word, channel identifying information and control information to at least one of said plurality of wireless communication apparatuses, wherein said channel control apparatus is configured to operate to transmit the function channel identifying information indicative of the type of information transmitted in the area of the control information, in the area of the channel identifying information included in said frame structured information and to operate to transmit random access control information indicative of either permission or prohibition of random access transmission, in an area succeeding the area of the control information, and wherein each of said plurality of wireless communication apparatuses is configured to operate to establish a receiving operation in the area of control information as one of a plurality of types of operations including a reception stop operation by determining the type of the function channel identifying information included in said frame structured information when the apparatus receives said frame structured information on the control channel.