Patent ID: 8526990

Claim:
A method comprising: at a first mobile station configured to operate in a radio access network, determining a verified transmit power (VTP) for the first mobile station, wherein determining the VTP for the first mobile station comprises: transmitting an access probe to a base station in the radio access network and waiting for an acknowledgement from the base station, wherein transmit power of the access probe is initially set at a predetermined ITP; if the acknowledgement is not received from the base station within the predetermined period of time, then repeatedly (i) increasing the transmit power, (ii) re-transmitting the access probe to the base station, and (iii) waiting the predetermined period of time, until the acknowledgement is received from the base station; and determining the VTP to be the transmit power of the access probe when the acknowledgement is received from the base station; the first mobile station using the VTP to generate a transmit-power message, wherein the transmit-power message is usable to determine an initial transmit power (ITP) for the second mobile station; and the first mobile station sending the transmit-power message to at least the second mobile station.