Patent ID: 8099123

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving samples of signals transmitted from a plurality of access terminals, the samples comprising pilot channel data, overhead channel data and traffic channel data; reconstructing at least one of the pilot channel data, overhead channel data and traffic channel data; jointly performing non-sequentially a) canceling at least a portion of the reconstructed pilot channel data, b) canceling at least a portion of the overhead channel data and c) canceling at least a portion of the traffic channel data in the samples; processing the samples to obtain traffic data sent by a first access terminal; measuring at least one of a traffic packet error rate (PER), a pilot signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) and a total power of the signals; and controlling a power or a gain of at least two of the pilot, overhead and traffic channels according to the measured at least one traffic packet error rate, pilot SINR, and total power, wherein controlling at least one of the power and the gain comprises: measuring an effective rise-over-thermal (ROT) value with an averaging window whose length is at least twice as long as a power control update period.