Patent ID: 8135017

Claim:
A method for obtaining efficient radio resource allocation in a mobile communication network, the network comprising a network entity communicating with at least one user equipment transmitting data to the network entity over a radio interface, the method comprising: receiving a first data transmission from the at least one user equipment; decoding the first data transmission and obtaining a result of the decoding; receiving a second data transmission from the at least one user equipment; sending a message on the downlink channel to the at least one user equipment based on the result of the decoding of the first received data transmission; determining whether the received second data transmission differs from an expected content by looking at a Retransmission Sequence Number of the received second data transmission; and, adjusting a power on a downlink channel depending on the result of the decoding of the first received data transmission and the content in the received second data transmission, wherein the receiving a first data transmission, the decoding, the obtaining, the receiving a second data transmission and the adjusting are performed on at least one processor, wherein adjusting the power comprises increasing the power on the downlink channel when the content in the received second data transmission differs from an expected content.