link transmission power from a wireless terminal to a base transceiver station in a multi carrier system is disclosed the method includes steps of determining a pathloss between the wireless terminal and the base transceiver station assigning at least one sub carrier to the terminal based on the pathloss between the wireless terminal and the base transceiver station and sending a power cap command signal from the base transceiver station to the wireless terminal for limiting a maximum allowable power transmitted by the wireless terminal to a predetermined level based on proximity of the sub carrier to an edge of a frequency band over which the wireless terminal transmits and receives signals application_number US 50329006 A description this invention describes a method for optimizing up link transmission power from a wireless terminal to a bts in a multi carrier system the following merely illustrates the various embodiments of the present invention for purposes of explaining the principles thereof it is understood that those skilled in the art will be able to devise various equivalents that although not explicitly described herein embody the principles of this invention fig1 a illustrates a down link signal comprised of a plurality of sub carriers in a multi carrier system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention the multi carrier system includes at least one bts and at least one wireless terminal such as customer premise equipment cpe a personal computer memory card international association pcmcia card or other wireless devices for exchanging information there between over a wireless channel the signal transmitted by the wireless terminal and received by the bts is referred to as an up link.