| US 7,525,909 B2 | ||
| Method and apparatus for dynamic adjustment of rise-over-thermal (ROT) threshold for reverse link rate allocation | ||
| Mingxi Fan, San Diego, Calif. (US); Eduardo A. S. Esteves, Sao Paulo (Brazil); Rashid Ahmed Attar, San Diego, Calif. (US); Naga Bhushan, San Diego, Calif. (US); and Peter J. Black, San Diego, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, Calif. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jun. 19, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/600,231. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0258035 A1, Dec. 23, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04J 3/14 (2006.01); G01R 31/08 (2006.01); H04B 7/216 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 370—230 [370/252; 370/329; 370/341] | 33 Claims |
| 1. A method of dynamically setting a rise-over-thermal (ROT) threshold in a communication system, the method comprising:
determining whether an outage of communication has occurred, wherein the step of determining whether the outage of communication
has occurred comprises:
determining which one of a plurality of access terminals is transmitting data to a base transceiver station at a lowest data
rate;
determining whether a set of data received from the access terminal transmitting at the lowest data rate has an error; and
setting a warning flag for the access terminal transmitting at the lowest data rate has an error;
increasing the ROT threshold by a predetermined increment if the outage has not occurred; and
decreasing the ROT threshold by a predetermined decrement if the outage has occurred.
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