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A method and apparatus for supervising a dedicated control channel when in the discontinuous transmission mode. The mobile station monitors the frames it receives from a base station and maintains a counter of bad, good, and empty frames, referred to as CNT1, CNT2, CNT3, respectively. If a received

A method and apparatus for supervising a dedicated control channel when in the discontinuous transmission mode. The mobile station monitors the frames it receives from a base station and maintains a counter of bad, good, and empty frames, referred to as CNT1, CNT2, CNT3, respectively. If a received frame is a good frame, CNT1 is reset to zero and CNT2 is incremented. If the received frame is a bad frame, CNT1 is incremented and CNT2 is reset to zero. If the received frame is an empty frame, CNT1 and CNT2 are unchanged but CNT3 is incremented. A transmitter coupled to the mobile station is enabled or disabled depending upon which, if any, of the CNTs reaches or exceeds a designated threshold value. In another embodiment, an average aggregated value reflecting the strength of the pilot signals in an active set, measured at the mobile station, is used for comparison to a threshold.

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What is claimed is: 1. A method for supervising transmissions from a remote station comprising:measuring signal-to-noise ratios of received transmissions;determining if a frame is good or bad based on an average signal-to-noise ratio over a first time interval, the average signal-to-noise ratio asce

What is claimed is: 1. A method for supervising transmissions from a remote station comprising:measuring signal-to-noise ratios of received transmissions;determining if a frame is good or bad based on an average signal-to-noise ratio over a first time interval, the average signal-to-noise ratio ascertained by averaging a plurality of aggregated signal-to-noise ratios corresponding to pilot signals received from each of a plurality of base stations in an active set over the first time interval; anddiscontinuing transmission of a reverse link as a function of whether said average signal-to-noise ratio is below a first threshold for a second time interval.