Patent ID: 8095167

Claim:
A transmission power control method in a cellular communication system including a plurality of cells, a plurality of base stations respectively arranged in respective of said plurality of cells, mobile stations located within said cells, and control station provided in common for said plurality of base stations and transmitting control instruction including a balance adjustment period for balance adjustment of transmission power to respective of said mobile stations from said base stations, wherein CFN represents a frame number of transmission frame to said mobile station and Nperiod frame represents said balance adjustment period, said method comprises a step of adding 1 to said CFN every frame and resetting said CFN to zero when said CFN exceeds a maximum value, and a step of starting said balance adjustment from the frame of the frame number CFN to be mod (CFN, m×Nperiod)=0 (m being a natural number) in response to reception of said control instruction, in each base station.