ПОВЫШЕНИЕ ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТИ СИСТЕМЫ МНОЖЕСТВЕННОГО ДОСТУПА С КОДОВЫМ РАЗДЕЛЕНИЕМ КАНАЛОВ

摘要

A method for utilising resources of a CDMA telecommunications system comprising a plurality of base stations B10 and one or more mobile terminals MT10 comprises causing the base stations to indicate, to the one or more terminals, whether they have unused capacity and causing one or more of the mobile terminals to change or maintain constant its data rate or power output dependent upon the unused capacity indication received from the base stations. A contention resolution phase may be used so that only sufficient terminals increase their data rate to accommodate the unused capacity. The system may be arranged so that the one or more mobile terminal only increases its data rate or power output if all base stations with which the mobile is in communication have sufficient capacity to accommodate such an increase.