The present invention provides a wireless network system for establishing
peer-to-peer communication between mobile terminals. Upon determining
that peer-to-peer communication can be established between two mobile
terminal, the wireless network system transmits to each of the mobile
terminals information about radio resources used by the other one of the
mobile terminals. Each mobile terminal then uses the radio resources
information to test the characteristics of a dedicated uplink channel
between the other one of the mobile terminals and the network system.
Thus, no separate radio channel needs to be allocated for the channel
testing. Furthermore, each mobile terminal uses the same radio resources
to establish a dedicated radio channel in the peer-to-peer communication
with the other one of the mobile terminals, which were previously used by
itself for communication with the network system on the dedicated uplink
channel. In this way, the network system does not need to allocate
additional radio resources for establishing the peer-to-peer
communication, thus simplifying the radio resources re-allocation scheme,
while ensuring that the quality of the channels is the same as tested.