Patent ID: 7145891

Claim:
A method comprising: providing at least two communication services to be transmitted using at least one code division multiplexing code, wherein the at least two communication services comprise at least a first conununicarion service to be transmitted pursuant to a first level of quality-of-service and a second communication service to be transmitted pursuant to a second level of quality-of-service; selecting a given one of the communication services and using that given one of the communication services and a level of quality-of-service that corresponds to the given one of the communication services to govern outer loop power control during transmission of the at least two communication services using the at least one code division multiplexing code; selecting rate matching parameters for each of the at least two communication services based on the rate matching (RM) parameters of the given one of the communication services according to: {RM 1 ,RM 2 , . . . ,RM I ,}={α 1 RM 1 ,α 2 RM 1 , . . . ,α 1 RM I ,} where I is the total number of communication services to be transmitted and RM 1 is the rate matching parameter for the given one of the communication services; selecting a rate marching parameter ratio for service i of the at least two communication services (α 1 ) according to: α i = β × log ⁡ ( SFER l SFER l ) where β is the power level transmit energy for a communication service and SFER i is the service frame error rate for service i of the at least two communication services and SFER 1 is the service frame rate for the given one of the communication services.