A METHOD OF ENABLING A COMBINED DATA RATE CONTROL LOCK CHANNEL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

摘要

A method of assigning feedback information in a portion of a Medium Access Control (MAC) channel in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method includes receiving at least two pilot signal from an access network (AN) (410) on at least two forward traffic channel, transmitting at least two channel quality information (401, 402, 403) on a single reverse carrier to the AN (410) reporting at least one of strength and quality of each corresponding forward pilot channel, wherein the channel quality information indicates a desired data rate for receiving data on the corresponding forward traffic channel, and receiving feedback information through a forward control channel (405) of the AN (410), wherein the feedback information includes combined channel quality information which indicates whether or not the AN (410) is able to receive multiple channel quality information sent by an access terminal (AT) (400) on the single reverse carrier.