Patent ID: 8307254

Claim:
A communication method performed by a computer, the method comprising: creating, by the computer, a dummy pattern added with an error correction code in a base station, during occurring of a downlink or uplink control channel that is not allocated for transmission of control information; transmitting, by the computer, said dummy pattern instead of control information from said base station to a mobile station through said downlink or uplink control channel that is not allocated for transmission of control information; decoding, by the computer, control information transmitted through any downlink or uplink control channel, examining whether or not a first value specified by said decoded control information is within a suitable range, and performing error detection of said decoded control information, in any mobile station; and stopping, by the computer, decoding of data transmitted through a downlink data channel or coding of data to be transmitted through an uplink data channel in said any mobile station, upon judging that said first value is not within said suitable range or detecting an error in said error detection of said decoded control information.