Hi Islam, I think it is used to take floor of the moving average expression. Lets say Alpha*X + (10-Alpha) * newEst = 7, if there wan't additional 5 term, etx would be 7/10=0, when you add 5, 4+7=11/10=1.
Regards, 2010/3/6 Islam Hegazy <[email protected]> > Hi, > > In the implementation of the 4bit estimator 'LinkEstimatorP.nc', the > equation (Alpha*X + (10-Alpha) * newEst + 5) / 10 is used to calculated the > inquality X=ne->inquality or EETX X = ne->eetx. My question is what is the > purpose of + 5 in the equation. I understand that we are calculating a > moving average with this equation but I can't understand the purpose of > adding 5. > > Regards > Islam Hegazy > > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > -- Mehmet Akif Antepli Telecommunications Lab. D-217 Dept. of EEE Middle East Technical University
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