| 摘要 |
A handset (24, 25) in a radio communication system (20) determines the quality of a channel (500 and 502) in response to an RSSI signal generated by a receiver (174) in combination with either an eye closure measurement (510) or a bit error rate detected by a CRC codeword in received digital information (502). The battery operated handset is also capable of conserving scanning power while operating in an area having high channel quality (520, 560, 566). The handset also has a method for determining the amount of handovers between base stations (21, 22, 23) by use of dual channel quality thresholds (582, 590) which require a higher quality threshold for establishing communication with a base station and a reduction in channel quality before a handover to a new base station. |
