radio link and transport channel rl tr configuration for pch reception is stored when the physical layer l 1 is configured to monitor a corresponding pich for receipt of a specified pi the pre configuration of the physical layer l 1 to monitor a particular pich for receipt of a specified pi includes instructions to the physical layer to automatically reconfigure itself in accordance with the data stored in the buffer when the specified pi is received and decoded this embodiment reduces unnecessary interlayer signaling since the required configuration information is available to l 1 processing based on system information previously processed by higher layers at the time it is configured to monitor for a specified pi accordingly the invention reduces unnecessary power consumption since higher layer processors can remain in a powered down state while l 1 processes the pi to determine if there is a need for the ue to receive the pch in a given drx cycle conservation of power is significant for a ue since many ues are battery powered and battery life can be considerably shortened by frequently powering processing components for higher layers as with the conventional system shown in fig2 in the embodiment of the invention shown in fig3 a and b the physical layer l 1 conducts chip processing of the received rx signal for each frame as it is received and then processes the received frames in accordance with the manner it.