Power Control Algorithm and Architecture for Fading Communication Channels

A power controller in a communication system adjusts the transmitted power level using adaptive prediction of channel fading for maintaining the power level for improved communications by using an adaptive nonlinear predictor that explicitly takes into account the propagation delay and channel fading where the transmitted power is determined on the basis of the measurement of the received power levels over the individual diversity branches for providing communication through a fading channel with effective performance equivalent to that of a channel without any signal fading.