Abstract: To report the time distribution of a succession of specified events such as occurrences of particular data elements in telecommunications equipment, the method comprises an initialization of a sampling quantity consisting of a positive integer and several successive iterations of a scheme comprising the following steps: detection of a number of events equal to the sampling quantity and metering of a sampling time taken to detect said number of events; quantization of the sampling time metered in the previous step so as to output coding data representing a quantized value of the metered sampling time; and updating of the sampling quantity as a function of parameters including the quantized value of this sampling time.

Abstract: Each radio station (2) has a receiving window associated with each frame, positioned according to a time marker inserted in the said frame by a control unit (1). The frames include data frames (5), in which the time marker is inserted for synchronization with a radio terminal (4), and signalling frames. Each radio station indicates a data frame received outside the associated receiving window, and responds to a signalling frame by returning to the control unit a synchronization parameter representing a time of arrival of the said signalling frame. In a period of transmission of successive data frames: signalling frames are transmitted to each radio station simultaneously; returned synchronization parameters are processed; and times of transmission of successive data frames are controlled according to the processed parameters.

Abstract: To report the time distribution of a succession of specified events such as occurrences of particular data elements in telecommunications equipment, the method comprises an initialization of a sampling quantity consisting of a positive integer and several successive iterations of a scheme comprising the following steps: detection of a number of events equal to the sampling quantity and metering of a sampling time taken to detect said number of events; quantization of the sampling time metered in the previous step so as to output coding data representing a quantized value of the metered sampling time; and updating of the sampling quantity as a function of parameters including the quantized value of this sampling time.