Patent ID: 8583974

Claim:
A method in a network node comprised in a wireless communication system, wherein said network node is adapted to enable wireless communication with at least one user equipment, the method comprises: receiving uplink data from said at least one user equipment; identifying whether said at least one user equipment is in at least one of a set of predetermined user equipment power challenged situations; setting an indication to hold a signal to interference ratio, SIR, target of said at least one user equipment if said at least one user equipment has been identified to be in at least one of a set of predetermined user equipment power challenged situations; signaling said indication together with said uplink data to a radio network controlling node comprised in said wireless communication system, wherein said indication is coded in a dedicated channel, DCH, frame protocol; and wherein said network node is adapted to utilize hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, for error control; wherein said indication is sent in a fixed part of said DCH frame protocol.