Methods and systems are described for calibrating amplitude hardware-induced distortion in a communications system. A power status indication is received by a base station (BS) of a communications system from a user equipment (UE) communicating in the communications system. A downlink pathloss associated with communications to the UE from at least one other BS is estimated by the at least one other BS of the communication system based on the received power status indication. Downlink power allocation is performed based on the downlink pathloss estimate from at least one other BS.