Embodiments of the invention provide embodiments of the invention provide
and method, network entity and user equipment for slow uplink power
control of user equipment in a wireless communication system by
responding to a long term control metric that is derived from an uplink
channel metric over a plurality of transmission instances and a set of
performance criteria. A method for slow uplink power control in
accordance with and embodiment of the invention measures at least one
uplink channel metric for user equipment and then determines an
appropriate transmit power for the user equipment by using a control
metric derived from the uplink channel metric corresponding to a
plurality of transmission instances for the user equipment.