Patent ID: 8582518

Claim:
A method of controlling transmit power of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) signal to be transmitted by a User Equipment (UE) in wireless communication with a processor via a wireless network associated therewith, the PUCCH signal including a number of Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) bits and a number of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) bits, the method comprising: using the processor, configuring a PUCCH format for the PUCCH signal; and using the processor, instructing the UE to apply a value for h(n CQI , n HARQ ) that depends on n HARQ according to the following linear function of n HARQ as a value for h(n CQI , n HARQ ): h ⁢ ( n CQI , n HARQ ) = n HARQ α + β , wherein “α” is a non-zero integer constant and |β|<1, wherein h(n CQI , n HARQ ) is a first power control parameter based on the PUCCH format and affecting the transmit power of the PUCCH signal, and wherein n CQI indicates the number of CQI bits and n HARQ indicates the number of HARQ bits in the PUCCH signal.