Patent ID: 8514921

Claim:
A method for assessing aircraft interference path loss in an aircraft, the method comprising: transmitting a plurality of radio frequency signals that are stepped through a plurality of frequencies in a frequency range from a plurality of locations within an interior of the aircraft; measuring received radio frequency signals generated at a receive antenna in response to transmitting the plurality of radio frequency signals to form a plurality of measurements; performing an autocorrelation check on the plurality of measurements to determine whether a desired sample independence is present or absent; responsive to the desired sample independence being absent, adjusting a frequency step size to step through a plurality of frequencies for the plurality of radio frequency signals to obtain the desired sample independence; generating an average of averages curve from the plurality of measurements; identifying a peak to average ratio from the average of averages curve; identifying field uniformity from the plurality of measurements; determining a standard error for the average of averages curve; and predicting an upper bound for the aircraft interference path loss in the zone within the aircraft using the average of averages curve, the peak to average ratio, the field uniformity, and the standard error.