Patent ID: 7522657

Claim:
A communication method comprising: characterizing a commutations channel using a transmitter; determining a data rate that maximizes channel throughput using said transmitter; and configuring said transmitter to send a transmit signal with said data rate; wherein characterizing the communications channel comprises modeling a channel gain probabilty density function; wherein the power allocation strategy sets γ k , a transmit gain for a kth interval, to γ k ⁡ ( α _ ) = min ⁡ ( max ⁡ ( λ ⁡ ( α _ ) - 1 α k , 0 ) , P p ) , wherein α is a vector of the channel attenuation α k for the last K intervals, P P is a peak power constraint, and λ( α ) is the solution to 1 K ⁢ ∑ k = 0 K - 1 ⁢ ⁢ min ⁡ ( max ⁡ ( λ ⁡ ( α _ ) - 1 α k , 0 ) , P p ) = P av .