Patent ID: 7480498

Claim:
A method for adjusting a gain setting in a telecommunication system comprising: at a first device, generating a pilot signal that has a dynamic range much smaller than a dynamic range associated with traffic signals to be transmitted from the first device to a second device; transmitting the pilot signal from the first device to the second device preceding each transmit period during which traffic signals are transmitted from the first device to the second device; receiving the pilot signal at the second device prior to a receive period that corresponds to the transmit period and during which receive period the second device receives traffic that is transmitted from the first device; deriving an initial gain setting associated with a receiver at the second device based on the pilot signal and on the basis of a gain setting computed at a most recent receive period, a first gain adjustment representing a difference between a desired reference received signal strength (RSS) of the pilot signal and a desired reference RSS of the traffic signals, and a second gain adjustment representing a profile difference between the pilot signal and the traffic signals of the most recent receive period; and generating a gain setting for use by the receiver when receiving the traffic signals based on the initial gain setting.