Due to the non-orthogonal uplink transmission in W-CDMA the principles applied for the newly definedtransport channel Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) are fundamentally different from HSDPA.The shared resource in the system is the received interference at the Node B and a transmission at a singleUE can impact the raise over thermal noise as received by different Node B. Continuous uplink powercontrol is still an essential means of link adaptation due to the well known near-far problem. Consequentlyit was decided to support soft handover for E-DCH to minimize intercell interference. Unlike HSDPAthe [...]

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