Patent ID: 7782791

Claim:
A method of enabling a mobile station to report channel quality in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving a radio block allocated for a control block, the control block comprising a header and a control message and the header comprising an identifier; measuring channel quality parameters for the radio block allocated for the control block when the identifier identifies the mobile station; and reporting channel quality over a reporting period, wherein measuring the channel quality parameters for the radio block comprises: determining a mean Bit Error Probability (BEP) for the radio block; and determining a coefficient of variance of BEP (CV BEP) for the radio block, wherein the channel quality comprises at least one overall mean BEP and at least one overall CV BEP, wherein the at least one overall mean BEP is determined by averaging BEP quality parameters according to a modulation scheme over all assigned channels after determining the BEP quality parameters by averaging a mean BEP for the radio block over the reporting period, and wherein the at least one overall CV BEP is determined by averaging CV BEP quality parameters according to a modulation scheme over all assigned channels after determining CV BEP quality parameters by averaging a CV BEP for the radio block over the reporting period.