Patent ID: 7680092

Claim:
A method of selecting link metric measurements from at least one of open loop and closed loop measurements associated with a radio communication sent by a first node, the method comprising: receiving by a second node the first radio communication over a communication link; and estimating by the second node the dynamics and condition of the communications channel using at least one of the variance and mean deviation of link metric measurements, the link metric measurements being comprised of at least one of symbol error rate (SER), packet error rate (PER), frame error rate (FER), bit error rate (BER), signal to noise ratio (SNR), and received signal strength (RSS), wherein the link metric measurements are normalized via at least one of the following methods: subtraction of transmitted power for a normalization of the SNR and RSS; and a table look-up of transformation for a normalization of the SER, PER, or FER from one modulation type to another when more than one modulation type is used.