Enhanced fast power control for WCDMA systems

The continuous increase of cellular phones shapes up the appearance of new communication systems and new technologies. In real life the radio signals are subjected to Rayleigh fading (fast fading) and interference. These result in large variations in signal strength. Power control (PC) is needed to compensate for these effects. Power control is one of the critical radio resource control functions in a WCDMA-based system. This paper describes a contribution of applying an adaptive (self-tuning) controller in the fast power control loop of WCDMA systems. Replacing the conventional controller with a controller that decides the PC command based on the history of the PC commands and errors improves the quality of the transmission significantly.