Method and apparatus for allocating fingers in a wireless communication system

摘要

In a communication system, a method and an accompanying apparatus determine a number of available fingers (110A-N) in a receiver (100). A controller (121) adjusts a threshold based on the determined number of the available fingers (110). The adjusted threshold may be one of, or any combination of, a pilot signal search threshold, a lock/unlock threshold, and a combine/uncombine threshold. The number of available fingers (110) may change after the threshold is adjusted.