Patent ID: 8830859

Claim:
A method for use in a receiver comprising: receiving a signal over a plurality of time segments, the signal over each time segment comprising a plurality of resource element blocks; for each time segment: selecting at least one resource element block from the plurality of resource element blocks of the time segment based on information determined about the time segment; determining a power value associated with the at least one resource element block of the time segment which comprises: for each of the at least one resource element block, determining an average power value per resource element of the resource element block; and determining the power value associated with the at least one resource element block by averaging all of the average power values per resource element for the at least one resource element block within the time segment, which further comprises: determining if each of the at least one resource element blocks is an occupied resource element block by comparing the average power value per resource element for the resource element block to a threshold that defines an occupied resource element block; and if the average power value per resource element for a resource element block is less than the threshold, not including the resource element block in the average when determining the power value; and determining a gain adjustment value to adjust the gain of the time segment or one or more subsequent time segments based upon the power value associated with the at least one resource element block.