Power controlled H-ARQ in cdma2000 1/spl times/EV-DV

The newly applied H-ARQ technique in the reverse link of a cdma2000/spl reg/ 1/spl times/EV-DV system is shown to be similar in nature to the fast power control technique such that the two techniques both reduce interference to other users. In order to balance the H-ARQ gain and packet delay time, four modes of operation are defined: normal, reduction, boost, and boost reduction. The four modes are defined according to the way the channel gain is set for the H-ARQ operation. Simulation results show that the reduction modes have better performance in terms of both PER and packet delay time. It is also shown that the boost modes have lower PER and packet delay time than the non-boost modes, but at the expense of more energy.