Patent ID: 7574230

Claim:
A remote base station for communicating with a mobile station over an air interface comprising: a first antenna receiving forward link wireless communication signals from a central base station; a second antenna receiving reverse link wireless communication signals from the mobile station; a first transceiver receiving the forward link wireless communication signals from the first antenna and sending the forward link wireless communication signals to the second antenna along a first signal path for transmission to the mobile station; a second transceiver receiving the reverse link wireless communication signals from the second antenna and sending the reverse link communication signals to the first antenna along a second signal path for transmission to the central base station; and a power control module coupled to each of the first transceiver and the second transceiver for adjusting a transmission power level for communication between the mobile station and the remote base station, wherein the transmission power level is a remote base station transmission power level used to transmit signals to the mobile station and the power control modules comprises service logic for adjusting the remote base station transmission power level based on an energy level E b /N o of the forward link signals received by the mobile station and an estimate of a noise level in the air interface, wherein the energy level E b /N o is determined by the mobile station and a value of E b /N o is communicated to the remote base station by the mobile station via the second transceiver, the power control module further sending, to the mobile station, an instruction to transmit reverse link signals at a selected power level, wherein the mobile station responsively transmits reverse link signals at the selected power level.