Procedure for increasing a pilot power for high speed dedicated physical control chanel in a user equipment

摘要

A method for increasing pilot power for high speed dedicated physical control channel, in a cellular wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: storing a predetermined DPCCH/DPDCH power ratio (betac/betad) increment in a storage device in a portable terminal (12); in the portable terminal, detecting the presence of a soft handover condition; in the portable terminal, detecting that a high speed dedicated control channel (HS-DPCCH) (26) is active; in response to positive determinations of the presence of a soft handover condition and that the HS-DPCCH channel is active, retrieving the predetermined DPCCH/DPDCH power ratio (betac/betad) increment from the storage device; and applying the DPCCH/DPDCH power ratio (betac/betad) increment to the DPCCH/DPDCH power ratio (betac/betad), thereby increasing the DPCCH channel power. A corresponding method is provided for applying an increment to a target signal-to-interference ratio in a base station, also to increase the DPCCH channel power.