Patent ID: 8824582

Claim:
A transmitting station arranged for performing channel coding and link adaptation, the transmitting station comprising at least one processor and physical layer circuitry arranged to: receive symbol-modulated subcarrier communication signals from a receiving station to determine an error rate, the symbol-modulated subcarrier communication signals received through a channel using a combination of two or more antennas; receive signaling from the receiving station, the signaling including channel quality information for channel resources of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) channel; select a modulation and coding rate for transmission of symbols by the receiving station based at least in part on the error rate; and transmit a transmit power control change to the receiving station, the transmit power control change based at least in part on the channel estimate, wherein the transmit power control change is selected for channel resources that are allocated to the receiving station, the channel resources comprising a group of subcarriers having an initially selected modulation and coding rate.