Closed loop resource allocation

A mobile station comprising:

• means for transmitting data at a first transmission rate on a reverse link;
• means for receiving a busy signal from each of a first set of a plurality of base stations;
• and
• means for stochastically reducing the first transmission rate to a second transmission rate if any of the received busy signals indicates capacity loading based in part on a metric determined from signals received from a second set of base stations with which the mobile station is not in active communication.

A method for determining reverse link transmission rate at an access terminal, comprising:

• initializing a current rate limit to a first rate limit value;
• receiving a message indicating a second rate limit value;
• comparing the second rate limit value to the first rate limit value;
• if the second rate limit value is less than or equal to the first rate limit value:
• storing the second rate limit value as the current rate limit;
• and
• if the second rate limit value is greater than the first rate limit value:
• maintaining the first rate limit value as the current rate limit for one frame after receiving the message;
• and
• storing the second rate limit value as the current rate limit.