Apparatus and method for controlling power of forward common power control channel in mobile communication system

In a mobile communication system for receiving a forward common power channel from all sectors included in the active set of the mobile terminal according to the present invention determines the power control bit and transmits a reverse pilot channel to the determined power control bit, the sector the method, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a channel quality indicator channel (CQICH) and a reverse pilot channel (PICH) from the terminal, and decodes the channel quality indicator channel indicating the best sector for controlling power of a forward common power control channel If the process of obtaining the sector indicator information and the sector indicator information does not indicate the process and the base station determines whether instructions from the base station, extracting the power control bit from the reverse pilot channel received with the extraction in accordance with the power control bit comprises the step of controlling power of the forward common power control channel. In a mobile communication system including a plurality of base stations included in the active set for the terminal and a hand-off, the apparatus for controlling power of common power control channel in said base station to control the transmission power of the device and method It is disclosed. The power control method according to an aspect of the present invention, the process of selecting a base station receives the pilot signals and transmitting the strongest pilot signals from the base station at the terminal and, with the selected base station to the selected base station by the terminal It includes the step of controlling the process and the power on the common power control channel transmitted to the terminal from the selected base station based on the received channel status information from the selected base station to transmit information indicating a channel condition between the MS.