METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN OUTER LOOP POWER OF A PACKET NON-TRANSMISSION INTERVAL IN A PACKET COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, PARTICULARLY FOR ACCURATELY AND EFFECTIVELY CONTROLLING OUTER LOOP POWER AT THE SAME CONDITION AS IN A PACKET TRANSMISSION INTERVAL

摘要

PURPOSE: A method for controlling an outer loop power of a packet non-transmission interval in a packet communication system is provided to stably perform an outer loop power control in coping with a quick fading. CONSTITUTION: Data packets and data rate indication information for indicating a transmission rate of the data packets are transmitted to a base station. When there is no more data to be transmitted, the first null data rate information is continuously transmitted during a certain time interval in order to inform the base station about entering a packet non-transmission interval. After the first null data rate information is transmitted, the following null data rate information is periodically transmitted so that the base station can control outer loop power of the packet non-transmission interval.