Wireless.h如何打印信号电平?

时间:2013-08-06 12:09:06

标签: c

在c程序中使用linux的无线工具,我进行了网络扫描,希望找到每个检测到的网络的信号强度(dBm)。

我在 wireless.h 中找到了以下内容:

struct  iw_quality
{
    __u8        qual;       /* link quality (%retries, SNR,
                       %missed beacons or better...) */
    __u8        level;      /* signal level (dBm) */
    __u8        noise;      /* noise level (dBm) */
    __u8        updated;    /* Flags to know if updated */
};

我在我的C程序中打印出“级别”,如下所示:

printf("Transmit power: %lu ", result->stats.qual.level);

也尝试%d ,但输出相同。

我得到的结果是看起来像 178,190,201,189 等的数字......

这些数字是否有可能以瓦特为单位?根据瓦特 - > dBm转换器,大约178瓦特。 52.50dBm?

我应该得到什么呢?因为我认为dBm转换为-80dBm或其他东西。

我需要转换这些数字吗?如何获得正确的输出?

谢谢!

======= UPDATE ======

我注意到一些奇怪的行为。当我通过我的程序使用wireless.h的level属性时,我记录的“最强”值约为-50dBm,而使用相同的路由器时,当我运行“iw wlan0 scan”时,我收到的最强-14dBm是最强的信号。

有谁知道导致这种差异的原因??

2 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:3)

为了将来的记录,感谢相关人员从评论中解决了这个问题。

我只需要将unsigned int转换为已签名的int并解决它。

将打印行更改为:

printf("Transmit power: %d ", (int8_t) result->stats.qual.level);

现在看起来像178,200的值变成-80,-69等!

答案 1 :(得分:3)

看起来你找到了正确的答案。对于记录,这是source(iwlib.c)关于编码的说法。

 /* People are very often confused by the 8 bit arithmetic happening
   * here.
   * All the values here are encoded in a 8 bit integer. 8 bit integers
   * are either unsigned [0 ; 255], signed [-128 ; +127] or
   * negative [-255 ; 0].
   * Further, on 8 bits, 0x100 == 256 == 0.
   *
   * Relative/percent values are always encoded unsigned, between 0 and 255.
   * Absolute/dBm values are always encoded between -192 and 63.
   * (Note that up to version 28 of Wireless Tools, dBm used to be
   *  encoded always negative, between -256 and -1).
   *
   * How do we separate relative from absolute values ?
   * The old way is to use the range to do that. As of WE-19, we have
   * an explicit IW_QUAL_DBM flag in updated...
   * The range allow to specify the real min/max of the value. As the
   * range struct only specify one bound of the value, we assume that
   * the other bound is 0 (zero).
   * For relative values, range is [0 ; range->max].
   * For absolute values, range is [range->max ; 63].
   *
   * Let's take two example :
   * 1) value is 75%. qual->value = 75 ; range->max_qual.value = 100
   * 2) value is -54dBm. noise floor of the radio is -104dBm.
   *    qual->value = -54 = 202 ; range->max_qual.value = -104 = 152
   *
   * Jean II
   */

levelnoise属于示例2,可以通过强制转换为带符号的8位值进行解码。