A method for observing of signals between communication systems, which operate according to the different time pattern

摘要

A receiving unit (R, R') of a monitoring communication system operating according to a first time scale uses idle Windows in its frames to search for information emitted by at least one transmitting unit (U1, U2...Un) of a monitored communication system operating according to a second time scale different from and asynchronous with respect to the first one. To efficiently cope with the need of temporarily suspending, from time to time, the monitoring for carrying out other tasks during the idle windows, the pattern of search and no-search intervals is set up so that the search intervals have a duration not exceeding a maximum time that can be devoted to the monitoring itself before starting execution of said other tasks; and the no-search interval are intervals within which the information searched for takes at least once all possible positions with respect to an idle window.