FIELD: radio engineering, communication.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to communication, more specifically to a power headroom control element for transmitting power information from user equipment (UE) to a base station (BS), a corresponding method, a method of processing received power information on a radio access network (RAN), as well as to user equipment for transmitting power information and a base station, configured to process received power information, which particularly enable simple handling and processing of transmission power information, respectively. The power headroom control element is structured to comprise a power headroom field containing power headroom information and having a predetermined number of bits in the power headroom control element, and an indicator field associated with the power headroom field, wherein the indicator field serves to indicate whether a transmission power field with a predetermined number of bits is present in the power headroom control element.
EFFECT: improved communication quality.
21 cl, 22 dwg
