Erasure detection and power control for a transport channel with unknown format in a wireless communication system

[0022] figure 1 A wireless communication system 100 is shown. Each base station 110 in system 100 provides communication coverage for a respective geographic area. A base station is a fixed station and may also be called a Node B, base transceiver subsystem (BTS), access point, or some other terminology. Wireless devices 120 are typically dispersed throughout system 100 . A wireless device may be either fixed or mobile, and may also be called User Equipment (UE), mobile station, terminal, or some other terminology. A wireless device may communicate with one or more base stations on the downlink and / or one or more base stations on the uplink at any given moment. A system controller 130 is coupled to the base station 110 and may be further coupled to other systems and networks, such as a public switched telephone network (PSTN), a network entity supporting packet data, and the like. The system controller 130 provides coordination and control for the base stations coupled th...