ESTIMATING COMMUNICATION QUALITY

摘要

A method for estimating quality of communications between a transmitter and a receiver over a communications link operable according to one of a plurality of communication modes and with one of a plurality of quality measures, data being carried over the link as a plurality of frames, the method comprising: analysing data received by the receiver over the link to determine the proportion of received frames that are deemed to have been received erroneously; estimating on the basis of that proportion a frame error probability; and storing that frame error probability in conjunction with the one of the quality measures and the one of the communication modes in use over the link.