Patent ID: 8135379

Claim:
A method for controlling the power of a radio base station (RBS) associated with a local network node among a network of telecommunications system nodes including at least a local network node and a remote network node, wherein at least one of said local network node and said remote network node are in physical motion during operation, comprising: maintaining, at the local network node, a persistent record for storing a plurality of data groups, wherein each said data group is associated with one of the telecommunications system nodes, and each said data group comprises node identifying data and configuration data; periodically sending, from the local network node to each remote node identified in the persistent record, a presence message comprising data identifying the local network node and position data of the local network node; receiving, at the local network node, an incoming presence message sent by said the remote network node, said incoming presence message containing data identifying the remote network node and position data of the remote network node; determining a distance between the local network node and the remote network node; and adjusting the power of the RBS based on the distance and a predetermined threshold value.