System and method for fluid power control of a reverse link communication

An apparatus for determining the data rate of a reverse link communication of an access terminal comprising:

• means for receiving a reverse activity bit;
• means for passing the reverse activity bit to a digital filter to produce a filtered reverse activity bit;
• means for determining a continuous fluid power level based on said filtered reverse activity bit;
• and
• means for determining the data rate based on said continuous fluid power level.

A computer readable media embodying a method for determining a data rate, the method comprising:

• receiving a reverse activity bit;
• passing the reverse activity bit to a digital filter to produce a filtered reverse activity bit;
• determining a continuous fluid power level based on said filtered reverse activity bit;
• and
• determining the data rate based on said continuous fluid power level.