Link Budget Parameters for 3G/UMTS

Table 1 System Parameters of the Link Budget

Number PARAMETER Type EXPRESSION

1 Direction input IN1 (UL/DL)

2 Duplex Mode (DM) input IN2 (FDD/TDD)

3 User Environment (UE) input IN3 (INDOOR/OUTDOOR)

4 System Bandwidth (BW) input IN4 (5, 10, 15, 20)

5 Cell Edge Throughput (CET) input IN5 (3.84, 1.92, 0.96, 0.48,

(Mbps) 0.24, 0.12)

6 Frequency Band (FB) input IN6 (700, 800, 900, 1800,

2100, 2600)

7 Terrain Morphology (TM) input IN7(DU, U, SU, R)

Table 2 Transmitter Side Parameters of the Link Budget

Number PARAMETER Type EXPRESSION

8 Max Transmit Power (dBm) input A

9 Transmit Antenna Gain (dB) input B

10 Transmit Cable Loss (dB) input C

11 Transmit Body Loss (dB) input D

12 EIRP per Subcarrier (dBm) output E=A+B–C-D

Table 3 Receiver Side Parameters of the Link Budget

Number PARAMETER Type EXPRESSION

13 Thermal noise density [dBm/Hz] input F

14 Receiver Noise Figure (dB) input G

15 Receiver noise density [dBm/Hz] output H=F+G

16 Receiver noise power [dBm] output I = H + 10*log (3 840 000)

17 Interference margin [dB] input J

18 Total effective noise interference output K=I+J

[dBm]

19 Processing gain [dB] output L = 10* log (3840/IN5)

20 Required Eb/N0 [dB] input M

21 Receiver sensitivity [dBm] output N=M–L+K

22 Receiver Antenna Gain (dBi) Input O

23 Receiver Cable Loss (dB) Input P

24 Receiver Body Loss (dB) Input Q

25 Fast fading margin [dB] Input R

26 Diversity gain (dB) Input S

27 Path loss (dB) output T = E – N + O - P – Q -R + S

Table 4 Final Coverage Planning Output Parameters

Number PARAMETER Type EXPRESSION

28 Building Penetration Loss (dB) input U

29 Car penetration losses (dB) input V

30 Log-normal Fading Margin (dB) input W

31 Soft handover gain [dB] input X

32 Propagation Model (PM) input IN8 (Okumura-Hata,

COST231-Hata)

33 UE Antenna Height (m) input IN9

34 NodeB Antenna Height (m) input IN10

35 Carrier Frequency (Fc) input IN11

36 Site Type (ST) input IN12 (Omnidirectional/3-

Sectorial)

37 Total Surface Area (Km2) input IN13

38 Maximum Allowable Pathloss output O1 = T – U – V – W + X

39 Cell Radius (Km) output O2

40 Number of NodeBs output O3