Patent ID: 8102771

Claim:
A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of uplink user data, comprising: decreasing, at a mobile station, the transmission rate of the uplink user data in accordance with a relative transmission rate control channel for instructing to decrease the transmission rate of the uplink user data, only when the mobile station receives the positive transmission acknowledgement signal from a radio base station, wherein the mobile station does not follow the relative transmission rate control channel for instructing to decrease the transmission rate of the uplink user data, when the positive transmission acknowledgement signal is not received, wherein the positive transmission acknowledgement signal is transmitted separately from the relative transmission rate control channel; the mobile station decreases the transmission rate of the uplink user data in accordance with a relative transmission rate control channel for instructing to decrease the transmission rate after receiving a positive transmission acknowledgement signal; and the mobile station does not decrease the transmission rate of the uplink user data in accordance with a relative transmission rate control channel for instructing to decrease the transmission rate before receiving a positive transmission acknowledgement signal.