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In telecommunications, received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is a measurement of the power present in a received radio signal.^[1]

RSSI is usually invisible to a user of a receiving device. However, because signal strength can vary greatly and affect functionality in wireless networking, IEEE 802.11 devices often make the measurement available to users.

RSSI is often derived in the intermediate frequency (IF) stage before the IF amplifier. In zero-IF systems, it is derived in the baseband signal chain, before the baseband amplifier. RSSI output is often a DC analog level. It can also be sampled by an internal ADC and the resulting codes available directly or via peripheral or internal processor bus.

In 802.11 implementations

In an IEEE 802.11 system, RSSI is the relative received signal strength in a wireless environment, in arbitrary units. RSSI is an indication of the power level being received by the receive radio after the antenna and possible cable loss. Therefore, the higher the RSSI number, the stronger the signal. Thus, when an RSSI value is represented in a negative form (e.g. −100), the closer the value is to 0, the stronger the received signal has been.

RSSI can be used internally in a wireless networking card to determine when the amount of radio energy in the channel is below a certain threshold at which point the network card is clear to send (CTS). Once the card is clear to send, a packet of information can be sent. The end-user will likely observe a RSSI value when measuring the signal strength of a wireless network through the use of a wireless network monitoring tool like Wireshark, Kismet or Inssider. As an example, Cisco Systems cards have an RSSI maximum value of 100 and will report 101 different power levels, where the RSSI value is 0 to 100. Another popular Wi-Fi chipset is made by Atheros. An Atheros-based card will return an RSSI value of 0 to 127 (0x7f) with 128 (0x80) indicating an invalid value.

There is no standardized relationship of any particular physical parameter to the RSSI reading. The 802.11 standard does not define any relationship between RSSI value and power level in milliwatts or decibels referenced to one milliwatt. Vendors and chipset makers provide their own accuracy, granularity, and range for the actual power (measured as milliwatts or decibels) and their range of RSSI values (from 0 to RSSI maximum).^[2] One subtlety of the 802.11 RSSI metric comes from how it is sampled{{mdash}}RSSI is acquired during only the preamble stage of receiving an 802.11 frame, not over the full frame.^[3]

As early as 2000, researchers were able to use RSSI for coarse-grained location estimates.^[3] More recent work was able to reproduce these results using more advanced techniques.^[4] Nevertheless, RSSI does not always provide measurements that are sufficiently accurate to properly determine the location.^[5] However, RSSI still represents the most feasible indicator for localization purposes as it is available in almost all wireless nodes and it does not need any additional hardware requirements.^[6]

Received channel power indicator

For the most part, 802.11 RSSI has been replaced with received channel power indicator (RCPI). RCPI is an 802.11^[7] measure of the received radio frequency power in a selected channel over the preamble and the entire received frame, and has defined absolute levels of accuracy and resolution. RCPI is exclusively associated with 802.11 and as such has some accuracy and resolution enforced on it through IEEE 802.11k-2008. Received signal power level assessment is a necessary step in establishing a link for communication between wireless nodes. However, a power level metric like RCPI generally cannot comment on the quality of the link like other metrics such as travel time measurement (time of arrival).

See also

References

1. ^{{Cite book |author=Martin Sauter |year=2010 |title=From GSM to LTE: An Introduction to Mobile Networks and Mobile Broadband |chapter=3.7.1 Mobility Management in the Cell-DCH State |type=eBook |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |page=160 |isbn=9780470978221 |accessdate=2013-03-24 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uso-6LN2YjsC&lpg=PA160&dq=received%20signal%20strength&pg=PA160#v=onepage&q=received%20signal%20strength&f=false }}
2. ^{{cite web|last1=Lui|first1=Gough|last2=Gallagher|first2=Thomas|last3=Binghao|first3=Li|title=Differences in RSSI readings made by different Wi-Fi chipsets: A limitation of WLAN localization|url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5955283|publisher=Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS), 2011 International Conference on |accessdate=24 June 2013}}
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5. ^{{cite web|last1=Parameswaran|first1=Ambili Thottam|last2=Husain|first2= M, I.|last3= Upadhyaya|first3= S. |title=Is RSSI a Reliable Parameter in Sensor Localization Algorithms – An Experimental Study|url=http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/srds2009/F2DA/f2da09_RSSI_Parameswaran.pdf|work=September 2009|publisher=28th International Symposium On Reliable Distributed Systems, New York|accessdate=17 March 2013}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309257981 |last1=Alhasanat|first1=Abdullah|last2=Sharif|first2= Bayan |last3= Tsemendis|first3= C. |title=Efficient RSS-based collaborative localisation in wireless sensor networks|work=January 2016 |publisher=International Journal of Sensor Networks, 22(1):27-36}}
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