Patent ID: 7330516

Claim:
A method for determining at least one operational transmit power (S 1,1 to S 1,K ) over a physical channel (L 1 ) for respective ones of at least one tone (f 1 to f K ), characterized in that said method comprises the steps of: determining a transmit power over said physical channel for each individual tone of said at least one tone such that said transmit power maximizes a weighted function of a data rate achievable over said physical channel and over said individual tone, and at least one concurrent data rate achievable over respective ones of at least one modeled neighboring channel (C 2 to C N ) and over said individual tone, with the constraint that said transmit power conforms to a transmit power mask, determining from the determined transmit power a total data rate (B 1 ) achievable over said physical channel and over said at least one tone, and at least one total concurrent data rate (B 2 to B N ) achievable over respective ones of said at least one modeled neighboring channel and over said at least one tone, adjusting each weight (w 1 to w N ) of said weighted function such that said at least one total concurrent data rate is greater than or equal to respective ones of at least one target data rate (BT 2 to BT N ), and such that said total data rate is maximized, with the constraint that each weight of said weighted function is identical over said at least one tone, thereby determining by iteration said at least one operational transmit power.