Patent ID: 7904055

Claim:
A method of transmitting messages from a mobile terminal to a network using a random access procedure in a mobile communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a first preamble for random access to the network on a physical random access channel (PRACH); determining whether an acknowledgement in response to the preamble for random access is received from the network on an acquisition indicator channel (AICH); transmitting a second preamble for random access to the network on a PRACH if the acknowledgement in response to the preamble is not received; transmitting a first message to the network after receiving a first PHY-DATA-REQ primitive from a medium access control (MAC) layer of the mobile terminal at a physical (PHY) layer of the mobile terminal if the acknowledgement in response to the first or second preamble was received; receiving either an acknowledgement (ACK) or non-acknowledgement (NACK) from the network the in response to the first message; performing a retransmission of the first message if the NACK is received in response to the first message; and transmitting a second message to the network after receiving a second PHY-DATA-REQ primitive from the medium access control (MAC) layer of the mobile terminal at the physical (PHY) layer of the mobile terminal if the ACK is received in response to the first message and the mobile terminal has data to be transmitted to the network, wherein each of the first and second messages comprises data delivered from an upper layer of the physical (PHY) layer.