Method and apparatus for determining the closed loop power control set point in a wireless packet data communication system
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1. A method for determining a power control set point, comprising:
- receiving a pilot signal;
calculating a pilot bit error rate based on the received pilot signal;
calculating a normalized signal variance based on the received pilot signal;
calculating an average number of fingers in lock based on the received pilot signal; and
calculating the power control set point based one or more factors including a first factor corresponding to the pilot bit error rate, a second factor corresponding to the normalized signal variance, and a third factor corresponding to the average number of fingers in lock.
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Abstract
According to one aspect of the invention, a method for determining a power control set point is provided. In one embodiment, the power control set point is determined based on one or more factors including a first factor corresponding to a pilot bit error rate, a second factor corresponding to a normalized signal variance, and a third factor corresponding to an average number of fingers in lock.
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19 Claims
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1. A method for determining a power control set point, comprising:
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receiving a pilot signal; calculating a pilot bit error rate based on the received pilot signal; calculating a normalized signal variance based on the received pilot signal; calculating an average number of fingers in lock based on the received pilot signal; and calculating the power control set point based one or more factors including a first factor corresponding to the pilot bit error rate, a second factor corresponding to the normalized signal variance, and a third factor corresponding to the average number of fingers in lock. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus for determining a power control set point, comprising:
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means for receiving a pilot signal; means for calculating a pilot bit error rate based on the received pilot signal; means for calculating a normalized signal variance based on the received pilot signal; means for calculating an average number of fingers in lock based on the received pilot signal; and means for calculating the power control set point based one or more factors including a first factor corresponding to the pilot bit error rate, a second factor corresponding to the normalized signal variance, and a third factor corresponding to the average number of fingers in lock. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An apparatus for determining a power control set point, comprising:
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a receiver to receive a pilot symbol stream comprising one or more pilot symbols; one or more metric calculators coupled to the receiver, each metric calculator to demodulate the received pilot symbols to generate demodulated pilot symbols, compute energy of the received pilot symbols, and determine whether a finger corresponding to the respective metric calculator is in lock; an error detector unit to determine a pilot bit error rate based on the demodulated pilot symbols and a predetermined pilot symbol sequence; a variance calculator to compute a normalized signal variance based on the energy of the received pilot symbols; and a set point calculator to calculate the power control set point based on a first factor corresponding to the pilot bit error rate, a second factor corresponding to the normalized signal variance, and a third factor corresponding to an average number of fingers in lock. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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