Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Patent
1995-11-22
1999-09-14
Bost, Dwayne D.
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
455 671, H04Q 728
Patent
active
059536608
ABSTRACT:
Methods and systems for measuring signal strength of supervisory audio tones (SATs) in radiocommunication systems are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments describe how such measurements may be performed using digital signal processing techniques, while reducing the amount of computing power, e.g., MIPs, used to accomplish this task. During each measurement interval a large number of SAT signal samples are received. Rather than process a complete measurement interval of received SAT samples, exemplary embodiments rely on a sliding average of samples which include both current and previous blocks of samples. In this way, the SAT signal strength can be reported relatively frequently to the system but without the number of computations that would be required to process all of the SAT signal samples received during a measurement interval.
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Lidfors Johnny
Ryde Omar
Bost Dwayne D.
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Wyche Myron K.
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