Patent ID: 8103284

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining, at a base station, a first load on at least one first uplink channel type based on a ratio of a measured received total wideband power and an estimated background noise received total wideband power and based on a sum of a product of an energy per chip to interference power ratio and a power ratio of uplink and downlink channels, the sum being taken over users that are scheduled by the base station, wherein load control for said at least one first uplink channel type is performed in a radio network controller, the first load representing a difference between a second load on at least one second uplink channel type and a total uplink load; providing, from the base station to the radio network controller, information indicative of the first load so that the radio network controller can perform at least one of admission control or congestion control for said at least one first uplink channel type based on the first load; and performing, at the base station, at least one of admission control or congestion control for said at least one second uplink channel type based on the second load.