Patent ID: 8009604

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing a radio channel between a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the transmitter is a base station in a cellular communications network, the receiver is a mobile radio terminal, and the radio channel is a high speed-downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH); determining a channel quality detected by the receiver that is associated with the radio channel; compensating the channel quality for an affect of a transmission on the radio channel when the receiver detected the channel quality or an affect of a future transmission on the radio channel; determining a total HS-DSCH transmission power when the mobile radio terminal detected the channel quality or when a future transmission on the HS-DSCH is planned; determining the compensated channel quality based on the total HS-DSCH transmission power; and deciding whether the HS-DSCH is code multiplexed, and if so, determining a fraction of the total HS-DSCH transmission power when the mobile radio terminal detected the channel quality or when a future transmission to the mobile radio terminal on the HS-DSCH is planned, and determining the compensated channel quality based on the fraction of the total HS-DSCH transmission power.