Method for control channel cycle management

In a radio access network, a method for control channel cycle management comprising:

• reserving a first portion of a control channel cycle on an air interface forward link to carry a first set of information;
• determining a second portion of the control channel cycle necessary to carry a second set of information;
• determining a remaining capacity of the control channel cycle beyond at least the first portion and the second portion;
• selecting as much of a neighbor list as will fit in the determined remaining capacity;
• transmitting in the control channel cycle the selected portion of the neighbor list and no other portion of the neighbor list;
• determining if the selected portion of the neighbor list includes at least a predetermined fraction of the neighbor list;
• and
• responsive to a determination that the selected portion of the neighbor list does not include at least the predetermined fraction of the neighbor list, transmitting a subsequent portion of the neighbor list in a subsequent control channel cycle.

In a radio access network, a method for control channel cycle management comprising:

• on an air interface forward link, determining a first portion of a control channel cycle necessary to carry a first set of information;
• determining a remaining capacity of the control channel cycle beyond at least the first portion;
• selecting as much of a neighbor list as will fit in the determined remaining capacity;
• transmitting in the control channel cycle the selected portion of the neighbor list and no other portion of the neighbor list;
• determining if the selected portion of the neighbor list includes at least a predetermined fraction of the neighbor list;
• and
• responsive to a determination that the selected portion of the neighbor list does not include at least the predetermined fraction of the neighbor list, transmitting a subsequent portion of the neighbor list in a subsequent control channel cycle.

On an air interface forward link, a method for control channel cycle management work comprising:

• reserving a first portion of a first control channel cycle on an air interface forward link to carry a first set of information;
• determining a second portion of the first control channel cycle necessary to carry a second set of information, wherein the second portion comprises at least one message selected from the group consisting of an access parameters message and a system parameters message;
• determining a remaining capacity of the first control channel cycle beyond at least the first portion and the second portion of the first control channel cycle;
• selecting as much of a neighbor list as will fit in the determined remaining capacity of the first control channel cycle;
• transmitting in the first control channel cycle the selected portion of the neighbor list and no other portion of the neighbor list;
• reserving a first portion of a second control channel cycle on the air interface forward link to carry a third set of information;
• determining a second portion of the second control channel cycle necessary to carry a fourth set of information;
• determining a remaining capacity of the second control channel cycle beyond at least the first portion of the second control channel cycle and the second portion of the second control channel cycle;
• selecting as much of the neighbor list as will fit in the determined remaining capacity of the second control channel cycle;
• and
• transmitting in the second control channel cycle as much of the neighbor list as will fit in the determined remaining capacity of the second control channel cycle and no other portion of the neighbor list.