Patent ID: 7933317

Claim:
A method for transmitting data in a telecommunication system including at least one transmitter and one receiver, comprising: transmitting, from said transmitter, an initial signal formed by at least one reference sequence including an initial integer number of pulses dispatched over a same integer number of time windows; receiving, at the receiver, the initial signal transmitted by the transmitter; computing, at the receiver, at least one detection value representative of an amount of power carried by the received signal; comparing, at the receiver, the computed detection value to at least one predetermined threshold value; tuning, with a processing unit at the transmitter, a second integer number of pulses included in a second reference sequence, said second integer number being larger than the initial integer number, wherein the integer number of pulses included in any given reference sequence is selected from a predetermined set of integer numbers; and transmitting, from said transmitter, a second signal formed by the second reference sequence including the second integer number of pulses dispatched over an additional integer number of time windows associated with the second integer number of pulses, wherein the second integer number of pulses is a successive multiple of the initial integer number of pulses.