Signal Quality Indicator
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Abstract
A method of deriving an indicator of the signal quality in an in-service packet-based network at least having means to detect errors in packets and means to determine the overall amount of network traffic received. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a value of the number of packets received having errors therein; obtaining a value of the overall amount of the network traffic received; calculating the indicator of signal quality (eBER) using the ratio of the number of packets received having errors therein to the overall amount of network traffic received.
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31 Claims
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15. A method of deriving an indicator of the signal quality in an in-service packet-based network, said network at least having an error detection function to detect errors in packets, and a counting function to determine an overall amount of network traffic received, the method comprising the steps of:
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obtaining a first value representing a number of packets received having errors therein; obtaining a second value representing an overall amount of network traffic received; and calculating an indicator of signal quality based on a ratio of the number of packets received having errors therein to the overall amount of network traffic received. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A signal quality indicator device for providing a measure of the signal quality in an in-service packet-based network, said network at least having an error detecting function to detect errors in packets and a counting function to determine the overall amount of network traffic received, the signal quality indicator device comprising:
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a data acquisition function configured to; obtain a first value representing a number of packets received having errors therein; and obtain a second value representing an overall amount of network traffic received; and a calculating function configured to calculate a signal quality based on the ratio of the number of packets received having errors therein to the overall amount of network traffic received.
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