Patent ID: 8537666

Claim:
A radio resource release controlling method that controls a release of a radio resource in a voice communication performed by a mobile station using the radio resource that is persistently allocated, the radio resource release controlling method comprising: determining whether or not a state is a silent state, in accordance with a size of an inputted packet; temporarily releasing the radio resource, when the state is determined as the silent state; and transmitting a resource release request to a radio base station, when the silent state is detected, wherein determining that the state is the silent state is performed by the mobile station performing the voice communication, the resource release request is transmitted by using a buffer status report reporting a data amount stored in a transmission buffer of the mobile station, the mobile station relates to a radio access bearer to which the radio resource is persistently allocated, the buffer status report includes a specific bit string that indicates the resource release request, and the buffer status report reports a data amount of 0 bytes.