Patent ID: 6967987

Claim:
A transmission power control method for controlling transmission power by performing site diversity reception for synthesizing received spectrum spread signals of mobile stations at a higher hierarchy station after receiving spectrum spread signals having a transmission power control bit at a plurality of base stations, the method comprising: demodulating, in the higher hierarchy station, a received spectrum spread signal of a predetermined mobile station, and generating a synthesized signal by synthesizing the demodulated signal by the site diversity reception; measuring a synthesized reception error rate of the generated synthesized signal; comparing the measured synthesized reception error rate with a predetermined set target synthesized reception error rate; correcting the predetermined set target reception error rate according to the predetermined mobile station set at a base station based on the result of the error rate comparison; receiving, in the base station, the spectrum spread signal transmitted from the predetermined mobile station and measuring a ratio between a received signal power and an interference power value, or a reception power value; demodulating, in the base station, the received spectrum spread signal and measuring a reception error rate of the demodulated signal; comparing the measured reception error rate with the corrected target reception error rate of the predetermined mobile station corrected by the higher hierarchy station; correcting a ratio between a predetermined target received signal power value and the interference power value, or a predetermined target reception power value based on the result of the error rate comparison; comparing the measured ratio between the received signal power value and the interference power value, or a reception power value with the corrected ratio between the target received signal power value and the interference power value, or the target reception power value; determining the transmission power control bit for controlling the transmission power of the base station based on the result of the power comparison, and transmitting the spectrum spread signal having the determined transmission power control bit from the base station to the predetermined mobile station; and varying, in the mobile station, the transmission power based on the determined transmission power control bit of the received spectrum spread signal.