Patent ID: 8095165

Claim:
A method for uplink power control by a base station in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of: determining a relative power offset for controlling power for traffic to be transmitted by a subscriber station, for a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) burst relative to a non-HARQ burst; and transmitting the relative power offset to the subscriber station, wherein the relative power offset is usable to require the subscriber station to adjust an UpLink (UL) transmission power of the HARQ burst by adding the relative power offset to a carrier-to-noise ratio value of the non-HARQ burst, wherein the relative power offset is contained in a format of a TLV (Type, Length, and Value) in an Uplink Channel Descriptor (UCD) message, and wherein the relative power offset is used for determining the UL transmission power of the HARQ burst by using a UL path loss and a noise and interference Power Spectral Density (PSD).