Power control in a wireless network

1. A user equipment (UE) comprising:

circuitry configured to receive, on a single downlink physical channel, a signal having both uplink resource allocation information and a multilevel transmit power command;

a processor configured to determine a pathloss between a base station and the UE;

the processor is further configured to determine an uplink transmission power level for an uplink signal to be sent on an uplink channel based on the multilevel transmit power command, the determined pathloss, and a format of the uplink signal; and

the processor is configured to send the uplink signal in association with the uplink resource allocation information and the determined uplink transmission power level.

2. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the uplink channel is an uplink shared channel.

3. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to accumulate a plurality of multilevel transmit power commands.

4. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the receiver is further configured to receive a parameter indicating whether accumulation of transmit power commands is to be performed by the processor.

5. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the UE is one of a code division multiple access (CDMA) UE or a time division duplex (TDD) UE.

6. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the single downlink physical channel or the uplink channel is each associated with a spreading factor or a code division multiple access (CDMA) code.

7. A method performed by a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

receiving, by the UE on a single downlink physical channel, a signal having both uplink resource allocation information and a multilevel transmit power command;

determining, by the UE, a pathloss between a base station and the UE;

determining, by the UE, an uplink transmission power level for an uplink signal to be sent on an uplink channel based on the multilevel transmit power command, the determined pathloss, and a format of the uplink; and

sending, by the UE, the uplink signal in association with the uplink resource allocation information and the determined uplink transmission power level.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the uplink channel is an uplink shared channel.

9. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

accumulating, by the UE, a plurality of multilevel transmit power commands.

10. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

receiving, by the UE, a parameter indicating whether accumulating transmit power commands is to be performed by a processor.

11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the UE is one of a code division multiple access (CDMA) UE or a time division duplex (TDD) UE.

12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the single downlink physical channel or the uplink channel is each associated with a spreading factor or a code division multiple access (CDMA) code.