Patent ID: 7103376

Claim:
A base station transmission control method applied to a cellular systems, the method comprising: setting up a connection by a mobile station to one or more base stations, wherein the mobile station; measures reception quality of pilot signals transmitted from the one or more connected base stations; designates one or more connected base stations with as transmitting base stations based on results of the measurement; notifies the one or more connected base stations about the one or more designated transmitting connected base stations, wherein the one or more transmitting connected base stations; transmit one or more dedicated physical control channel signals and one or more dedicated physical data channel signals to the mobile station; measure uplink reception quality; transmit transmission power control signals multiplexed in the dedicated physical control channel signals to control transmission power of the mobile station so that the reception quality approaches a prescribed target quality; wherein one or more connected base stations not designated as transmitting base stations halt transmission of the dedicated physical data channel signals and decide whether or not to transmit the dedicated physical control channel signals in accordance with the uplink reception quality; and wherein the mobile station receives one or more dedicated physical control channel signals transmitted from connected base stations and controls its own transmission power in accordance therewith.