Patent ID: 8761826

Claim:
A wireless communication device comprising: a transceiver; a processor coupled to the transceiver, the processor configured to determine a path loss between each of a plurality of communication nodes and the wireless communication device, the processor configured to determine an effective path loss based on the path loss determined for the each of the plurality of communication nodes and based on a corresponding weight for each of the plurality of communication nodes wherein the plurality of weights are not all identical, and the processor configured to determine a transmit power of the wireless communication device based on the effective path loss; wherein the processor is configured to determine a weighted path loss for each of the plurality of communication nodes as a product of the path loss and the corresponding weight for the communication node; and wherein the effective path loss is based on a summation of a reciprocal of each of the plurality of weighted path losses, wherein the effective path loss is a reciprocal of the summation.