Received signal strength determination method, apparatus and computer program products

摘要: A signal strength for a received such as radio transmitted over wireless network is determined based on large number of sample measurements the which may be taken disjoint time intervals. Each digitized so to take one discrete values, example, 256 possible values an 8-bit converter. The occurrences each accumulated in bins (counters) and indication by summation measured processing counts rather than themselves. are provided monotonically related more particularly, logarithmic magnitude representations measurement. Bin reduced iteratively replacing greater 1 incrementing count proportionately higher value bin until only or zero remain. These then combined provide single counter with non-zero indicates measurements. invention further using bit memory elements byte look-up tables even efficient reduce power consumption battery powered devices cellular radiotelephones.