Patent ID: 6950667

Claim:
In a wireless communication system, a method of reusing common physical channel (CPCH) timeslots to transmit dedicated physical channel (DPCH) signals, the method comprising: (a) tagging each CPCH timeslot as being aggressive or non-aggressive; (b) limiting the power level for transmitting DPCH signals over the CPCH timeslots to a maximum power level; (c) if the number of CPCH timeslots is not greater than one, tagging the CPCH timeslots as being non-aggressive; (d) if the number of CPCH timeslots is greater than one, tagging for each cell the CPCH timeslots to be reused to transmit DPCH signals as being aggressive, and tagging all others of the CPCH timeslots as being non-aggressive; (e) increasing by a predetermined amount the power of a DPCH signal transmitted for each CPCH timeslot that is tagged as being non-aggressive and the power is below a predetermined maximum power level; (f) monitoring the metrics associated with the quality of the CPCH timeslot; and (g) for each angular section of each cell associated with a degradation of CPCH quality, determining the respective neighboring cells, reducing the maximum power level for the CPCH timeslots in the neighboring cells associated with the degradation of CPCH quality, and tagging the neighboring cells as being aggressive for the CPCH timeslots associated with the degradation of CPCH quality.