Patent attributes
A method and system is disclosed for dynamic adjustment of reverse-link rate-control parameters. An access terminal in a wireless communication system that includes a base station will operate in a state in which the access terminal responds to receiving reverse-noise messages from the base station by (i) transmitting data on a reverse-link traffic channel to the base station at a data transmission rate based at least on the received reverse-noise messages and on a level of a resource in reserve for consumption in data transmission, and (ii) when the received reverse-noise messages indicate that conditions for increasing the data transmission rate are satisfied, replenishing the resource by an allocation size specified by at least one parameter. In response to receiving the parameter-adjustment message and while still operating in the state, the access terminal will increase the allocation size by adjusting the at least one parameter, and thereby increase an amount by which the data transmission rate increases.
