Improving UTRA TDD downlink power control with asymmetrical steps

This paper discusses downlink power control of dedicated channels in UTRA TDD. The current UTRA TDD downlink power control is similar to the one in UTRA FDD mode, that comprises of closed inner loop and quality based outer loop. However, due to the time division feature and associated flexibility with asymmetry of TDD, the inner loop can not react as fast as in FDD and it is affected by rapid changes in environment. Therefore, the effect of the inner loop algorithm to the performance of UTRA TDD network is studied in this paper. Especially, the use of asymmetrical step sizes in power adjustment is proposed, and the achieved gains are highlighted by the means of dynamic system simulations.