Patent ID: 7623490

Claim:
A method that facilitates wireless communication, comprising: receiving information associated with a forward link at a mobile terminal, the information including channel related information and power related information; determining a capacity based effective signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) from the received information; conveying the capacity based effective SNR to a base station; comparing the capacity based effective SNR to a target effective SNR, wherein an up command is sent if the capacity based effective SNR is less than the target effective SNR and a down command is sent otherwise; utilizing the capacity based effective SNR to facilitate wireless communication; and computing the capacity based effective SNR as follows: C ⁡ ( SNR eff ) = 1 N ⁢ ∑ i = 1 N ⁢ C ⁡ ( SNR i ) , wherein SNR eff =C −1 (1/ N . . . ), SNR i is the SNR of the ith modulation symbol; C( ) is the constrained capacity function corresponding to the modulation scheme; N is the total number of modulated symbols; N 0,i is the interference power seen by the ith modulation symbol; N 0 is the average interference power seen by all the symbols; and N 0 =(1/N)sum(N 0,i )).