Patent ID: 8233439

Claim:
A method for determining an Enhanced Dedicated Channel Dedicated Physical Data Channel (E-DPDCH) gain factor in compressed mode, comprising: determining the E-DPDCH gain factor in compressed mode according to the number of E-DPDCH required for initial transmission of data; when L e,I,i denotes the number of E-DPDCH required for initial transmission of data, β ed,C,i denotes the E-DPDCH gain factor, and a current frame is a compressed frame, β ed , C , i = β c , C , j · L e , ref , 1 L e , I , i · ( ( L e , ref , 2 L e , ref , 1 ⁢ A ed , ref , 2 2 - A ed , ref , 1 2 K e , ref , 2 - K e , ref , 1 ) ⁢ ( K e , i - K e , ref , 1 ) + A ed , ref , 1 2 ) · 10 ( Δ ⁢ ⁢ harq 20 ) · 15 · N pilot , C N slots , I · N pilot , N , wherein β c,C,j denotes a Dedicated Physical Control Channel (DPCCH) gain factor used for the j:th TFC in compressed mode; A ed , ref , 1 = β ed , ref , 1 β c , A ed , ref , 2 = β ed , ref , 2 β c , and β c is a DPCCH gain factor in non-compressed mode; β ed,ref,1 and β ed,ref,2 denote E-DPDCH gain factors of first and second reference E-TFCs respectively; L e,ref,1 and L e,ref,2 denote the number of E-DPDCHs used for the first and second reference E-TFCs respectively; K e,ref,1 and K e,ref,2 denote the transport block sizes of the first and second reference E-TFCs respectively; K e,i denotes the transport block size of the i:th E-TFC; Δ harq denotes an offset of the HARQ; N pilot,C is the number of pilot bits per slot on the DPCCH in compressed frame; N pilot,N is the number of pilot bits per slot on the DPCCH in non-compressed frame; and N slots,I is the number of non Discontinuous Transmission (DTX) slots in a frame used for initial transmission of data; and transmitting a signal using the determined E-DPDCH gain factor.