Patent ID: 8441938

Claim:
A method of uplink retransmissions in a user equipment of a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) with enhanced uplink, comprising the steps of: transmitting in an initial uplink transmission, a subframe comprising a first number of physical control channels and a second number of physical data channels at initial power settings for the physical control channels and the physical data channels; retransmitting the subframe at the initial power settings in a number N of a total number M of retransmissions, where N is smaller than M; and retransmitting the subframe in the remaining M-N retransmissions in a manner to reduce control overhead, wherein at least one of the first number of physical control channels has a lower transmission power level than the corresponding physical control channels in the initial transmission, and at least one of the second number of physical data channels has a higher transmission power level than the corresponding physical data channels in the initial transmission.