Patent ID: 8706154

Claim:
An uplink power control method in a terminal of a wireless communication system, the uplink power control method comprising: receiving, by the terminal, information about a layer power control matrix, the layer power control matrix configured to control a transmit power of each layer of R layers, where R is a number of layers; mapping, by the terminal, one or more codewords to the R layers; multiplying, by the terminal, the R layers by the layer power control matrix based on the information about the layer power control matrix; circularly shifting, by the terminal, the R layers by a predefined time unit; precoding, by the terminal, the circularly shifted R layers with a N t -by-R precoding matrix to create N t precoded layers, where N t is a number of transmit antennas of the terminal; and controlling, by the terminal, a transmit power of each transmit antenna of the terminal by multiplying the N t precoded layers by a transmit antenna power control matrix.