Method and apparatus for communication channel error rate estimation

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A wireless communication device or system generates transmit power control feedback for a received power control channel by determining a command error rate (CER), or by identifying a target signal quality for the power control channel according to a defined signal-quality-to-CER mapping function. Generally, the power control channel does not include error-coded data to use for CER estimation. However, in one embodiment the channel does include known , reference bits that are evaluated for CER estimation with the estimated CER , used to set the signal quality target for inner loop power control. In other embodiments, a computed reception error probability is used to identify a CER …