Method and apparatus for performing random access procedure in a mobile communication system

A User Equipment (UE) apparatus for performing a random access procedure in a mobile communication system, comprising:

• a physical layer processor configured to exchange messages with an Evolved Node B (ENB);
• a Medium Access Control (MAC) controller configured to control transmitting a preamble to the ENB via a first message, acquire uplink (UL) transmission resource information from the ENB in response to the first message via a second message that the physical layer processor received from the ENB, the UL transmission resource information being used for transmitting at least one of a transparent Radio Resource Control (RRC) message indicating that a UE having no RRC control connection transmits for the first time, and Buffer Status Report (BSR) information indicating an amount of UL data, generate a MAC control message containing therein the BSR information, and output a format indicator as part of a third message, indicating whether the transparent RRC message or the BSR information is included in the third message, the third message being transmitted responsive to the second message using the UL transmission resource information;
• and
• a MAC multiplexer configured to multiplex a MAC control message including at least one of the transparent RRC message delivered from an upper layer and the BSR information delivered from the MAC controller, and generate the third message based on the format indicator designated by MAC controller,
• wherein the format indicator is set to a first value if the transparent RRC message is part of the third message and is set to a second value if the BSR information is part of the third message.

A method for performing a random access procedure by an Evolved Node B (ENB) in a mobile communication system, the method comprising:

• receiving a preamble for identifying a User Equipment (UE), from the UE via a first message;
• transmitting uplink (UL) transmission resource information via a second message in response to the first message, the UL transmission resource information being used for transmitting at least one of a transparent Radio Resource Control (RRC) message indicating that a UE having no control connection transmits for the first time and a Buffer Status Report (BSR) information indicating an amount of UL data;
• receiving a third message transmitted in response to the second message, through the UL transmission resource information;
• checking a format indicator of the third message, indicating if the third message includes the transparent RRC message or the BSR information;
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• processing the third message in an RRC layer or a Medium Access Control (MAC) layer based on a set value of the format indicator,
• wherein the format indicator is set to a first value if the transparent RRC message is part of the third message and is set to a second value if the BSR information is part of the third message.

An Evolved Node B (ENB) apparatus for performing a random access procedure in a mobile communication system, comprising:

• a Medium Access Control (MAC) controller configured to receive a preamble for identifying a User Equipment (UE) from the UE via a first message to perform the random access procedure, transmit a second message including therein uplink (UL) transmission resource information to the UE corresponding to the preamble, and process Buffer Status Report (BSR) information included in a third message received from the UE responsive to the second message;
• a physical layer processor configured to exchange the first message, the second message and the third message with the UE;
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• a MAC demultiplexer configured to check a format indicator of the third message received from the physical layer processor to determine if a transparent Radio Resource Control (RRC) message is included in the third message or the BSR information is included in the third message, deliver the BSR information to the MAC controller if the BSR information is included in the third message, and deliver the transparent RRC message to a Layer 2 (L2) processor if the transparent RRC message is included in the third message,
• wherein the transparent RRC message indicates that a UE having no RRC control connection to the ENB transmits for the first time, and the BSR information indicates an amount of UL data, and
• wherein the format indicator is set to a first value if the transparent RRC message is part of the third message and is set to a second value if the BSR information is part of the third message.