Patent ID: 7242956

Claim:
A method for performing rapid power control in an infrastructure component associated with a Radio Access Network (RAN), the method comprising: translating a quality value received on an uplink channel from a User Equipment (UE) into a transmit power value associated with a downlink channel, the quality value corresponding to a channel as received by the UE, the quality value received according to a time period; generating a first predicted value for the quality value at a first time increment during the time period, and generating a second predicted value for the quality value at a second time increment during the time period, the second time increment different from the first time increment and wherein the second predicted value includes a value H(n) according to the relation: H ⁡ ( n + k + 1 ) = ∑ i = 0 L - 1 ⁢ y i ⁡ ( n ) × H ⁡ ( n - i ) , wherein k includes the first time increment, L is a number of filters, and where y i includes a weight for interval i.