CONTROLLING MULTIPLE MODEMS IN A WIRELESS TERMINAL USING ENERGY-PER-BIT DETERMINATIONS

摘要

A mobile wireless terminal (MWT) includes multiple wireless modems. The multiple modems have their respective transmit outputs combined to produce a n aggregate transmit output. The multiple modems can concurrently transmit dat a in a reverse link direction and receive data in a forward link direction. Th e MWT is constrained to operate under an aggregate transmit power limit. Each of the multiple modems has an individual transmit limit related to the aggregat e transmit power limit. An MWT controller controls the total number of modems that transmit data at any given time, based on an average energy-per- transmitted bit, or alternatively, individual energy-per-transmitted bits of the modems.