Patent ID: 8577383

Claim:
A method for receiving, by a mobile terminal from a base station, system information via a broadcast control channel (BCCH), which is a logical channel between a radio link control (RLC) layer and a medium access control (MAC) layer, and a broadcast channel (BCH) and a downlink shared channel (DL_SCH), the BCH and DL_SCH being transport channels between the MAC layer and a physical layer and which are each directly mapped to the BCCH, the method comprising: receiving a block of first system information from the base station via the BCH; after the block of first system information is received, receiving a first block of second system information from the base station via the DL_SCH configured to carry system information and user traffic, the first block of second system information including schedule information; and after the first block of second system information is received, receiving a second block of second system information from the base station via the DL_SCH in accordance with the schedule information included in the first block of second system information, wherein the first block of second system information and the second block of second system information are received via the DL_SCH in accordance with a specific control channel, and wherein the specific control channel indicates frequency and time information via which the first block of second system information and the second block of second system information are received via the DL_SCH.