Patent ID: 8582620

Claim:
A radio communication apparatus comprising: a measurer configured to measure a first reception quality of received data; a first comparator configured to compare the first reception quality with a first target quality; a generator configured to generate a signal indicative of power controlling in accordance with the comparison result; a calculator configured to calculate a second reception quality of the received data; a detector configured to detect a change in a durability for transmission error of the received data based on at least one of a Transport Format Combination Indicator and a Transport Time Interval (TTI), the durability being indicative of an encoding rate or a number of divisions, a second comparator configured to compare the change in the durability for transmission error of the received data, the second reception quality, and a second reception quality target quality; and an update controller configured to execute an update of the first target quality in accordance with the compared change in the durability, the second reception quality, and the second reception quality target quality.