Apparatus and an associated method for facilitating communications in a radio communication system that provides for data communications at multiple data rates

摘要

Apparatus for a mobile station operable in a radio communication system for facilitating communication of data upon a reverse link data channel with a network part of the radio communication system. A supplemental pilot, or control, signal generator (84) embodied at a mobile station selectably generates a second pilot, or control, signal (24), supplemental to a first pilot, or control signal (22) that is sent on a newly defined supplemental pilot, or control, channel. The second pilot signal supplement the energy of the first pilot signal when data communicated on the reverse link data channel exhibits a communication parameter that exceeds a selected threshold (86).