Outer Loop Power Control for E-DCH

A base station adapted for power control in an enhanced uplink (UL) telecommunication system further comprising:

• at least one first radio network controller (RNC), at least one first and one second base station in the system enabling wireless communication with at least one first user terminal, wherein
• the first and the second base stations being adapted to receive at least a first transport block (TB), the first TB being transmitted by the user terminal over an established communication channel,
• the first (11) and the second (10) base station further being adapted to control whether the received first TB includes at least one error,
• if at least one error in the first TB is found by the first (11) and/or the second (10) base station, the base station that found the error further being adapted to control the number of decoding attempts for the first TB, the number of decoding attempts being stored in a decoding attempt counter,
• if the number of decoding attempts for the first TB is equal to a decoding attempt threshold, the base station/-s (10,11) that found the error is further adapted to determine if the first TB is a discontinuous transmission frame (DTX) or a TB including errors and
• if the first TB is a DTX, the base station that found the error is further adapted to reset the decoding attempt counter and prepares the station for a new, second TB.

An enhanced uplink (UL) telecommunication system adapted for power control, the system comprising:

• at least one first radio network controller (RNC) and at least one first and one second base station enabling wireless communication with at least one first user terminal, wherein
• the first and the second base stations being adapted to receive at least a first transport block (TB), the first TB being transmitted by the user terminal over an established communication channel,
• the first and the second base station further being adapted to control whether the received first TB includes at least one error,
• if at least one error in the first. TB is found by the first and/or the second base station, the base station that found the error further being adapted to control the number of decoding attempts for the first TB, the number of decoding attempts being stored in a decoding attempt counter,
• if the number of decoding attempts for the first TB is equal to a decoding attempt threshold, the base station that found the error is further adapted to determine if the first TB is a discontinuous transmission frame (DTX) or a TB including errors, and
• if the first TB is a DTX, the base station/-s that found the error is further adapted to reset the decoding attempt counter and prepares the station/-s for a new, second TB.