Patent ID: 7042957

Claim:
A method for transmitting information via a transmission medium having particular transmission characteristics, with the aid of a multicarrier method, from a first unit to a second unit, the method comprising the steps of: using a first transmit signal to transmit the information, the first transmit signal exhibiting a plurality of frequency-specific subcarriers; determining, in the first unit, frequency-selective transmission characteristics of the transmission medium using a second transmission signal sent out by the second unit, the second transmission signal exhibiting at least one frequency-specific subcarrier; adapting, in the first unit, the plurality of frequency-specific subcarriers of the first transmit signal to the frequency-selective transmission characteristics of the transmission medium which have been determined; determining at least one of frequency-selective amplitude-specific transmission characteristics and frequency-selective phase-specific transmission characteristics of the transmission medium as the transmission characteristics; and averaging at least one of the frequency-selective amplitude-specific transmission characteristics and the frequency-selective phase-specific transmission characteristics of adjacent subcarriers of one of the first and second transmit signals for determining the frequency-selective transmission characteristics of the transmission medium.