Patent ID: 8724504

Claim:
A power control method of a Physical Uplink Control Channel, PUCCH, in a Long Term Evolution Advanced system, comprising: receiving, by a User Equipment, UE, downlink data and generating positive acknowledgement, ACK,/negative acknowledgment, NACK, information; determining, by the UE, whether to bundle the generated ACK/NACK information; determining, by the UE, the parameter value of the number of ACK/NACK bits, n HARQ , according to a bundling scheme used for the ACK/NACK information upon determining to bundle the generated ACK/NACK information; and determining, by a UE, a power offset value corresponding to the number of bits carried on the PUCCH using the parameter value of the number of ACK/NACK bits, n HARQ , and then determining the transmit power of the PUCCH based on the power offset value and transmitting the bundled ACK/NACK information on the PUCCH with the transmit power.