System for transmitting packet data in radio telephone TDMA systems

A time division multiple access (TDMA) radio telephone system for transmitting packet data including:

• a base station and a mobile station, and
• at least one logical channel comprising TDMA slots for transmitting packet data communication between the base station and the mobile station,
• the at least one logical channel having a control channel (C) comprising slots that are temporally spaced apart by a group of consecutive slots, and an information channel (I) comprising the group of consecutive slots separating the slots comprising the control channel (C), wherein the logical channel is a downlink logical channel for transmitting from the base station to the mobile station and the control channel (C) is capable of transmitting packet paging (PP) data for informing the mobile station of incoming packet data, and wherein the packet paging (PP) data includes a bitmap indicating which time slots are reserved for downlink packet data transmission,
• wherein a mobile station listens to normal paging calls of the system for an identifier indicating an incoming packet data transmission, and responsive to a detection of said identifier the mobile station starts listening to said packet paging (PP) data.

A system for the radio transmission of packet data in a digital time division multiple access (TDMA) based cellular system of a type that includes at least one base station and at least one mobile station, wherein downlink direction logical channels from a base station to a mobile station comprise channels for the transmission of information (I) and control channels (C) including a paging channel for sending packet paging (PP) data with which the network informs the mobile station about an incoming packet data transmission and also a reservation request acknowledge channel on which the network transmits a packet access grant (PAG) to acknowledge a channel reservation request (PRA) transmitted by a mobile station on an uplink direction logical channel from the mobile station to the base station, wherein a number of time slots in a TDMA frame dedicated for packet data transmission is variable according to packet data transmission needs, wherein packet data is encoded into an information channel frame comprising N-1 information bursts and between information channel frames there is one control channel (C) burst, wherein the information transmission channel frames and the control channel bursts form N burst sequences, and wherein on the control channel is transmitted an acknowledge/retransmission request (ARQ) burst reporting one of that a received frame was error-free or requesting retransmission.

A time division multiple access (TDMA) radio telephone system for transmitting packet data, comprising:

• a base station and N packet data mobile stations, and at least N logical channels each comprising M TDMA time slots that define a logical TDMA frame for transmitting packet data communications between the base station and individual ones of said N mobile stations, individual ones of said M TDMA time slots of a logical TDMA frame occurring during a same physical time slot number in a succession of physical TDMA frames;
• wherein
• each of said at least N logical channels comprises a control channel (C) and an information channel (I), said control channel (C) being transmitted during physical time slots that are temporally spaced apart by M-1 consecutive same numbered physical time slots of M-1 consecutive physical TDMA frames, said information channel (I) being transmitted during same numbered M-1 consecutive physical time slots of said M-1 consecutive TDMA physical frames;
• and wherein
• at least one of said N logical channels is used for transmitting packet data communications between the base station and an individual one of said N mobile stations.