the invention provides a power control methodology that increases the performance and the throughput of wireless communication systems . in particular , the invention provides a reverse jamming prevention process that efficiently utilizes power resources in a communication system such as cdma . the invention advantageously prevents reverse jamming due to link imbalance that results from differences in forward and reverse link coverage . according to the invention , an evaluation set , which is a super set of the active set of base transceiver stations serving specific users , is determined to prevent the negative effects of reverse jamming . excessive interference problems in the reverse link , particularly in high - speed wireless systems , are thus avoided .