Patent ID: 7130652

Claim:
A method for controlling power, the method comprising the steps of: calculating an ideal power; transmitting a preamble with the ideal power by a mobile station if the ideal power is inside a limitation which is described by one of a maximum extreme power and a minimum extreme power, respectively; retransmitting the preamble by the mobile station with one of the maximum extreme power and a power which is between the minimum extreme power and the calculated ideal power if the ideal power is outside a limitation which is described by one of the maximum extreme power and the minimum extreme power, respectively; acknowledging reception of the preamble by a base station by an acknowledgement message which is transmitted from the base station to the mobile station; aborting the retransmission of the preamble with constant power after a predetermined number of retransmissions; and calculating a new ideal power of the preamble by incrementation if the acknowledgment message is lacking, wherein the incrementation is executed by incrementing the power of the last preamble transmitted, if the power of the last preamble transmitted is between the minimum extreme power and the calculated ideal power.