Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc.

Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Hongwel Kong

Francis Dominique

Walid Elias Nabhane

Walld E Nabhane

In the method, a current channel condition is estimated based at least in part on a previous channel quality indicator and power control information received after the previous channel quality indicator.

Method of estimating a current channel condition in a wireless communications network

In a method of multipath acquisition for a dedicated traffic channel, path positions of the traffic channel that have desired signal energy for processing in a base station receiver may be determined as a function of pilot signal information and other control information contained in a control part of the traffic channel.

Methods of multipath acquisition for dedicated traffic channels

In a method of controlling transmit power for a user call migrating between a first entity and a second entity in a base station of a wireless communication system, power control may be performed, as a call of the user is migrated from the first to the second entity, or vice versa, based on an adjustment ratio value. Parameters for balancing transmit power as the user call is migrated from the first entity to the second entity may be selected so that any difference in transmit power does not adversely affect system performance.

Method of power control for call migration

In one embodiment of the method, a channel quality metric for a first subframe is estimated based at least in part on a channel quality metric for a previous subframe, and a channel quality metric for a second subframe is estimated based at least in part on the channel quality metric for the previous subframe. Here, the second subframe is later in time than the first subframe. Then, a channel quality metric for a time slot located between the first and second subframes is estimated based on the channel quality metrics for the first and second subframes.

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