The invention discloses a method to perform downlink Power Control in packet
switching cellular systems with dynamic allocation of the RF channel, such as GPRS/EGPRS.
The performances concern a scenario in which a radio block transmitted from the
Base Station (BTS) on a downlink channel has to be received from at least two MSs
simultaneously, a first MS being the addressee of the data/control packet on the
downlink TBF while the second MS being the addressee of the Uplink State Flag (USF)
for scheduling transmission of the next data/control packet from an uplink TBF
to an uplink shared channel. First MS transmits to the BTS a first measurement
report including measures of BCCH level and interference level on all the timeslots,
while the second MS transmits a NC report including measures of BCCH level only,
that because detailed interference measure on the downlink channel are prevented
due the absence of a concurrent downlink TBF. The measures are averaged in as many
running average filters and the averages compared with target thresholds to find
a first and a second power reduction intended for USF and packet transmission respectively.
A final power reduction is selected from the two for the next PC execution step.
Target threshold for the first MS's averaged measures is a C/I value which provides
maximum achievable net throughput independently of Coding Scheme. Target threshold
for the second MS depends on CS of the USF flag in a way that when the mean value
of the level measures is equal to the threshold a fixed probability takes place
that the USF flag is decoded with success. The network, in the capacity of the
BSC and PCU, counts successfully and unsuccessfully blocks received uplink upon
transmission of the scheduled USFs for that uplink TBF, being the lack of a scheduled
block noticed by the network. If successfully counting reaches a fixed maximum
counting before, then an increment of the first power reduction is decided, while
in case the maximum unsuccessfully counting is reached before a decrement of the
first power reduction is instead decided (FIG. 10).