A method of allocating resources in a radio base station apparatus is disclosed. A call processing controller, upon receipt of a call connection request from a mobile terminal, multicasts a resource allocation request to each signal processing card in a signal processor. Each signal processing card that has received the resource allocation request, searches resources in the respective card managed by each signal processing card for unused resources and transmits a resource allocation response message to the call processing controller that is indicative of whether the resources can be allocated or not. The call processing controller transmits a resource allocation message to the signal processing card that has transmitted the resource allocation response message which was first received by said call processing controller, and which indicates that the resource can be allocated, and causes the signal processing card to allocate the resources.