Patent ID: 7480517

Claim:
A method of power control in a 3G wireless communication system, comprising: a mobile station communicating a forward link Frame Error Rate (FER) measurement to a base station on a reverse link; the base station performing at least one of a base station transmit power boundary adjustment and a mobile station signal-to-noise ratio boundary adjustment based on the forward link FER measurement received from the mobile station, wherein the base station transmit power boundary adjustment comprises: if the forward link FER measurement is above an FER threshold value, and if a base station maximum transmit power setpoint is not at a maximum transmit power ceiling, increasing the base station maximum transmit power setpoint; if the forward link FER measurement is below the FER threshold value and if the base station maximum transmit power setpoint is not at a maximum transmit power floor, decreasing the base station maximum transmit power setpoint; and wherein the mobile station signal-to-noise ratio boundary adjustment comprises: if the forward link FER measurement is above the FER threshold value, and if a maximum signal-to-noise ratio target setpoint is not at a maximum signal-to-noise ratio ceiling, increasing the maximum signal-to-noise ratio target setpoint; and if the forward link FER measurement is below the FER threshold value, and if the maximum signal-to-noise ratio target setpoint is not at a maximum signal-to-noise ratio floor, decreasing the maximum signal-to-noise ratio target setpoint.