Patent ID: 8767599

Claim:
A method for dynamically controlling a base station downlink transmission power to user equipment (UE) in a High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) communication system, comprising: assigning a power indicator target to enhanced dedicated (E-DCH) uplink transport channel; performing an outer loop computation having a first period, wherein the outer loop computation, comprises: incrementing the power indicator of the E-DCH uplink transport channel based upon a first criteria; decrementing the power indicator of E-DCH uplink transport channel based upon a second criteria; determining a maximum power indicator of each of a plurality of transport channels other than the E-DCH uplink transport channel; assigning a second power indicator target to the determined maximum power indicator; determining a maximum power indicator from the E-DCH uplink transport channel and the second power indicator target; and performing an inner loop computation having a second period, wherein the inner loop computation comprises making a power control decision based on the maximum power indicator.