Patent ID: 8295210

Claim:
A mobile communication method, comprising the steps of: (A) performing, at mobile station, a cell selection; (B) transmitting, from the mobile station to a radio base station that manages a selected cell, a random access preamble; (C) transmitting, from the radio base station to the mobile station, a random access response, in response to the received random access preamble; (D) transmitting, from the mobile station to the radio base station, an RRC re-establishment request signal by using a resource designated by the random access response; (E) transmitting, from the radio base station to the mobile station, a contention resolution signal including the RRC re-establishment request signal, in response to the received RRC re-establishment request signal; (F) transmitting, from the radio base station to the mobile station, a RRC re-establishment signal that is a response message to the RRC re-establishment request signal; and (G) receiving, at the mobile station, the contention resolution signal and the RRC re-establishment signal; wherein in the step (E) and (F), the radio base station transmits the RRC re-establishment request signal in connection with the contention resolution signal or transmit the RRC re-establishment request signal separately of the contention resolution signal.