Patent ID: 8271013

Claim:
A method in a user equipment (UE) in a communications network for reception of a data flow on a first channel, the method comprising the steps of: receiving by said UE on a second channel an indication of a channel quality required for reception of the data flow from said network, wherein said UE is Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) enabled and transmission power is altered based on said MBMS enabled UE's distance to a base station, measuring a link quality of the UE by monitoring a common pilot channel (CPICH), wherein the UE measures and resorts the quality (E c /I o ) of the CPICH periodically, comparing said measured link quality with said received indication of the channel quality required for reception of the data flow, and transmitting a channel quality report comprising information about the link quality to said network, if said measured link quality is lower than said received indication of the channel quality required for reception of the data flow, wherein the power for the UE is computed using: P MBMS =P CPICH +δ+ρ[dbm] Wherein P CPICH [dBm] is a properly tuned transmitted CPICH power p a service factor δ = ( E c I o ) M y - ( E c I o ) N x ⁡ [ dB ] , ⁢ is an offset Wherein ( E c I o ) N x is x th percentile of the CPICH quality of all the users in a cell and ( E c I o ) M y is y th percentile of the CPICH quality of only MBMS users in said cell.