Patent ID: 8041381

Claim:
A radio network controller in which an inner loop transmission power control is adopted between a mobile station and a radio base station, and an outer loop transmission power control is adopted between the radio base station and the radio network controller, and which controls, by comparing a target SIR notified from the radio network controller and a received SIR of a signal received from the mobile station, a radio base station which instructs the mobile station to increase or reduce a transmission power, the radio network controller comprising: a measurement unit configured to receive a data block from the radio base station and to measure a reception quality of the data block; and a target SIR calculation unit configured to calculate the target SIR based on the reception quality measured by the measurement unit, wherein, the target SIR calculation unit sets a first time section, which indicates a time section from the measurement of the reception quality to the notification of the target SIR to the radio base station when the reception quality is deteriorated, shorter than a second time section, which indicates a time section from the measurement of the reception quality to the notification of the target SIR to the radio base station when the reception quality is not deteriorated, the measurement unit detects, as the reception quality, a block error from the received data block, the target SIR calculation unit calculates the target SIR based on the detected block error rate, and sets the first time section, which indicates a time section from the detection of the block error rate to the notification of the target SIR to the radio base station when the block error is detected, shorter than the second time section, which indicates a time section from the detection of the block error to the notification of the target SIR to the radio base station when the block error is not detected, and the target SIR calculation unit is configured to calculate the target SIR which is increased by a predetermined value of ΔUP when an error is detected, and to calculate the target SIR which is decreased by a value of ΔDOWN, by using a formula (1) and by setting the target block error rate as BLER_target, when the error is not detected for a predetermined time N CNT [TTI] Δ ⁢ ⁢ Down = BLER_target 1 - BLER_target · Δ ⁢ ⁢ UP · N CNT . formula ⁢ ⁢ ( 1 )