Patent ID: 8340593

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a serving base station, noise plus interference level information (NI) from at least one neighboring base station; receiving, at the serving base station, a request from a mobile station for identification of a calculation formula for determining a target signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR Target ); determining, by the serving base station, a control factor, the control factor including identification of the calculation formula for determining SINR Target , a signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) requirement for the minimum data rate expected by the base station (SINR MIN ), and the NI; transmitting, by the serving base station, the control factor to the mobile station; and receiving, at the serving base station, a signal from at least one antenna of the mobile station, an uplink transmit power of the signal from the at least one antenna calculated by the mobile station using the identified calculation formula for determining SINR Target , the SINR MIN and the NI provided by the control factor sent to the mobile station by the serving base station.