DPCH multiplexing apparatus and method for outer loop power control in a W-CDMA communication system

A method for transmitting a dedicated physical data channel signal over a dedicated physical data channel in the absence of transmission data to be transmitted over the dedicated physical data channel in order to properly maintain a target SIR when there exists new transmission data after the absence of the transmission data in a CDMA mobile communication system, comprising the steps of:

• generating a dummy bit generation request signal in the absence of the transmission data;
• upon receipt of the dummy bit generation request signal, generating by a bit generator a dummy bit stream, and generating by a matrix generator a matrix by sequentially receiving in a row a first bit stream created by attaching a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) bit stream to the dummy bit stream and dedicated physical data channel signals to be transmitted over one or more additional dedicated physical data channels being different from said dedicated physical data channel;
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• performing interleaving by an interleaver to delete bits corresponding to the dummy bit stream by performing column permutation on the matrix, and mapping the interleaved signal to a dedicated physical data channel.