Patent ID: 8014375

Claim:
A communication method applied to a mobile communication system in a code division multiple access system for continuously transmitting frames in a normal mode and intermittently transmitting compressed frames in a compressed mode, in accordance with transmission power adjusted with a power control step size, said method comprising: at a base station, transmitting transmission power control information indicating increase or decrease of transmission power to a mobile station; at a mobile station, receiving said transmission power control information from a base station, the transmission power control information indicating increase or decrease of transmission power; adjusting transmission power in the normal mode and the compressed mode in accordance with the transmission power control information received in the receiving step by increasing or decreasing current power with the power control step size for the normal mode and with a plurality of power control step sizes for the compressed mode, said plurality including at least one power control step size larger than said power control step size for the normal mode, in the normal mode, transmitting the frames continuously in accordance with the transmission power adjusted in the adjusting step, and in the compressed mode, performing interleaving in bit units on one of the frames, compressing the interleaved frame, dividing the interleaved and compressed frame into a first portion including front edge of a frame window and a second portion including rear edge of the frame window, the frame window being the same as a frame window in the normal mode, and transmitting the divided frame intermittently in accordance with the transmission power adjusted in the adjusting step.