1 Jun 2011 01:11
Re: Relationship between noise floor and channel quality
Peng Du <eddy.pdu <at> gmail.com>
2011-05-31 23:11:49 GMT
2011-05-31 23:11:49 GMT
Thanks Sergio, I have a couple of nodes sending packets to a sink. The Tx power is predefined, though obvious the RSSI values at receiver side vary a lot. What I want to do is to assess how desirable a channel could be for my network by reading the RSSI value from the register when no nodes are sending/receiving. I guess it could be called environment interference, if noise floor is too ambiguous a name. So do you think this is a feasible method? Regards, Peng On 31 May 2011 23:37, Sergio Valcarcel <serteckian <at> gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Peng, > For a given bandwidth, the capacity of a channel is function of the signal > to noise ratio. Neither the noise, nor the signal alone, but what matters is > how larger is the signal with respect to the noise. In fact, you should > treat as noise any other channel disturbance, like interference. > If there is very low noise floor but the transmitter is very far away, the > S/N ratio will still be low. > However, you could parametrize your set-up, with a lot of assumptions, like > number of nodes, maximum and minimum transmitting power, maximum and minimum > distance between Tx and Rx, channel model, etc. > Then, you could establish bounds in the performance. But I do not know > whether this is what you have in mind... > Cheers! > Sergio(Continue reading)
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