CONTROL OF ACCESS POINT TRANSMIT POWER BASED ON RECEIVED ACCESS TERMINAL MESSAGES

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of controlling transmit power for an access point on the basis of information received by the access point.SOLUTION: An access point employs 106 one or more algorithms that use messages received from nearby access terminals 102, 104 to maintain an acceptable tradeoff between providing an adequate coverage area and mitigating interference caused at nearby access terminals. Here, the access point employs a network listen-based algorithm upon initialization of the access terminal to provide preliminary transmit power control until sufficient information is collected for another transmit power control algorithm (an access terminal assisted algorithm). In addition, the access terminal employs an active access terminal protection scheme to mitigate interference the access point otherwise causes to a nearby access terminal 104 that is in active communication with another access point 108.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1