A method and apparatus is provided, wherein configuration information for a transmission is determined based on a configured uplink grant. Information of an assigned one of a plurality of different received by a network entity power levels for each user equipment for a given transmission instance is received. A transmit power offset is determined, based on the received information of the assigned one of the plurality of different received by the network entity power levels. A transmit power for transmission is determined, based on the configuration information of the configured uplink grant by applying the determined transmit power offset, when the determined transmit power with the determined transmit power offset applied is not less than a predefined threshold value, and by not applying the determined transmit power offset, when the determined transmit power with the determined transmit power offset applied is less than the predefined threshold value. An uplink transmission is performed using the determined transmit power for transmission.