Patent ID: 9380542
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for power control in a wireless broadcast communication system that comprises a plurality of communication cells, with broadcast multimedia content being routed from a base station to at least one wireless communication unit via at least one relay node (RN), the method comprising, at the base station: broadcasting the broadcast multimedia content from the base station to at least one RN; receiving from the at least one RN an indication of signal quality of the broadcast multimedia content as received at the at least one RN; determining, in response to said receiving the indication of signal quality of the broadcast multimedia content, whether an adjustment of a transmit power level of a subsequent broadcast transmission of broadcast multimedia content will improve a decoding operation applied to the broadcast multimedia content at the at least one RN; and adjusting the transmit power level of the subsequent broadcast transmission of broadcast multimedia content in response to said determining that the adjustment of the transmit power level of the subsequent broadcast transmission of broadcast multimedia content will improve the decoding operation applied to the broadcast multimedia content at the at least one RN.