Patent ID: 8130740

Claim:
A channel transmission apparatus for communicating to a user equipment (UE) within a radio access network (RAN) wherein a radio physical channel is available to multiple logical channels commonly, multiple radio physical control channels are provided concomitantly with the radio physical channel and include a commonly usable common control channel, the apparatus comprising: a logical channel type determination unit determining a type of a logical channel; and a channel transmission unit transmitting an identifier of the UE in the radio physical control channel depending on the type of the logical channel, wherein a scheme of identifying the UE in the radio physical control channel is modified depending on the type of the logical channel, the identification of the UE is carried out with a common identifier in the common control channel prior to establishment of a radio connection, and the common identifier is commonly usable to multiple UEs communicating the common control channel and is assigned to the common control channel in advance.