Power control in a wireless communication system

A user equipment (UE) characterized in that:

• circuitry is configured to receive, by the UE, an indication of whether accumulation of transmit power control (TPC) commands is enabled;
• circuitry is configured to determine a path loss of a downlink channel;
• the circuitry is further configured to receive, on a single physical channel if accumulation is enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource and a TPC command, wherein the TPC command is accumulated with other received TPC commands;
• circuitry is configured to calculate, by the UE if accumulation is enabled, transmit power in association with an uplink communication based on both the path loss and the accumulated TPC commands;
• and
• the circuitry is further configured to receive, on the single physical channel by the UE if accumulation is not enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource to transmit data at a power level calculated by the UE based on the path loss.

A method performed by a wireless network, the method comprising:

• sending, by the wireless network, an indication of whether accumulation of transmit power control (TPC) commands is enabled;
• determining, by a user equipment (UE), a path loss of a downlink channel;
• receiving, on a single physical channel by the UE if accumulation is enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource and a TPC command, wherein the TPC command is accumulated with other received TPC commands;
• calculating, by the UE if accumulation is enabled, transmit power in association with an uplink communication based on both the path loss and the accumulated TPC commands;
• and
• receiving, on the single physical channel by the UE if accumulation is not enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource to transmit data to the wireless network at a power level calculated by the UE based on the path loss.

A wireless network characterized in that:

• the wireless network is configured to send an indication of whether accumulation of transmit power control (TPC) commands is enabled;
• a user equipment (UE) characterized in that:
• circuitry is configured to determine, by the UE, a path loss of a downlink channel;
• circuitry is configured to receive, on a single physical channel if accumulation is enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource and a TPC command, wherein the TPC command is accumulated with other received TPC commands;
• circuitry is configured to calculate, by the UE if accumulation is enabled, transmit power in association with an uplink communication based on both the path loss and the accumulated TPC commands;
• and
• the circuitry is further configured to receive, on the single physical channel by the UE if accumulation is not enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource to transmit data to the wireless network at a power level calculated by the UE based on the path loss.

A method performed by a network device, the method comprising:

• sending, by the network device, an indication of whether accumulation of transmit power control (TPC) commands is enabled;
• sending, on a single physical channel by the network device if accumulation is enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource and a TPC command to be accumulated with other received TPC commands at a user equipment (UE);
• receiving, by the network device if accumulation is enabled, uplink communication at a transmit power, wherein the transmit power is calculated at the UE based on both a determined path loss of a downlink channel and the accumulated TPC commands;
• and
• sending, on the single physical channel to the UE if accumulation is not enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource to transmit data to the network device at a power level calculated at the UE based on the path loss.

A network device characterized in that:

• circuitry is configured to send, by the network device, an indication of whether accumulation of transmit power control (TPC) commands is enabled;
• the circuitry is further configured to send, on a single physical channel if accumulation is enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource and a TPC command to be accumulated with other received TPC commands at a user equipment (UE);
• circuitry is configured to receive, if accumulation is enabled, uplink communication at a transmit power, wherein the transmit power is calculated at the UE based on both a determined path loss of a downlink channel and the accumulated TPC commands;
• and
• the circuitry is further configured to send, on the single physical channel if accumulation is not enabled, an allocation of a scheduled uplink resource to transmit data to the network device at a power level calculated at the UE based on the path loss.