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Abstract

A method is disclosed for deriving an optimum decision criteria to detect forward link power control bits by a base station from a reverse link signal. In managing the forward link received power, a mobile station commands the base station to incrementally alter the forward link transmit power, by sending periodic power control bits to the base station on a reverse link signal. The transmitted power control bits may be distorted by channel imperfections and multipath effects. The method disclosed derives an optimum decision variable for performing power control bit estimation at the base station. In a preferred embodiment, the optimum decision variable is computed by considering the in-phase and quadrature components of a single power control group received on the reverse pilot channel. Both the in-phase and quadrature components of the power control are respectively made up of a pilot part containing the reverse pilot signal which is repeated over a first fixed chip duration, and a power control part containing the forward power control bit, which is repeated over a second fixed chip duration. The optimum decision variable is obtained by first summing the respective in-phase and quadrature pilot parts over their respective first chip durations, summing the respective in-phase and quadrature power control parts over their respective in-phase and quadrature components, the respective multiplication results are then summed to yield a single result.

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