Patent ID: 7096032

Claim:
In a wireless communication system including a plurality of cells, each cell having a plurality of angular sections, a method of reusing common physical channel (CPCH) timeslots to transmit dedicated physical channel (DPCH) signals, the method comprising: (a) tagging each of the CPCH timeslots, wherein a CPCH timeslot is tagged as being aggressive when the power of DPCH signals in the respective CPCH timeslot would cause interference if increased, and a CPCH timeslot is tagged as being non-aggressive when the power of DPCH signals in the respective CPCH is increased if a predetermined DPCH signal maximum power level has not yet been reached; (b) increasing by a predetermined amount the power of a DPCH signal transmitted for each CPCH timeslot that is tagged as being non-aggressive and the power is below a predetermined maximum power level; (c) monitoring the metrics associated with the quality of the CPCH timeslot; and (d) for each angular section of each cell associated with a degradation of CPCH quality, determining the respective neighboring cells, reducing the maximum power level for the CPCH timeslots in the neighboring cells associated with the degradation of CPCH quality, and tagging the neighboring cells as being aggressive for the CPCH timeslots associated with the degradation of CPCH quality.