TAILORED BASE STATION POWER LEVELS AT HANDOFF AND CALL SETUP

摘要

Methods and apparatus for controlling the inital transmit power from a base station to a mobile station at call set-up and call handoff. The initial transmit power from a base station during a call set-up can be reduced from the conventional full power level by a sum of the hysteresis value for the cell which is handing off the mobile station and the hysteresis value for the cell which is receiving the mobile station. When the mobile station initiates or receives a call, the initial tranmsit power from a base station to the mobile station is reduced from the full power level by the hysteresis value for the hysteresis zone which surrounds the cell in which call set-up is to occur. The reduction in the initial power levels reduces interference caused to surrounding cells at the initiation of a call set-up or call handoff.