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Applying Friis' Formula: Going To The DB Domain

This document discusses link budget analysis for wireless communication systems. [1] Link budgets relate the transmitter power, path loss, and receiver sensitivity to determine the required power and system parameters to achieve a desired communication range. [2] An example 60GHz indoor link budget shows that with a 10m range, transmit power of only -1.5dBm is needed due to high antenna gains and low path loss indoors. [3] For a 100m outdoor link, the required transmit power increases to 22.6dBm due to additional path loss and rain attenuation.

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Applying Friis' Formula: Going To The DB Domain

This document discusses link budget analysis for wireless communication systems. [1] Link budgets relate the transmitter power, path loss, and receiver sensitivity to determine the required power and system parameters to achieve a desired communication range. [2] An example 60GHz indoor link budget shows that with a 10m range, transmit power of only -1.5dBm is needed due to high antenna gains and low path loss indoors. [3] For a 100m outdoor link, the required transmit power increases to 22.6dBm due to additional path loss and rain attenuation.

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Applying Friis’ formula

Going to the dB domain:

More generally:

Plug in your
favorite model
for path loss

Free space path loss model gives us back the first formula:
Link budget
Given a desired receiver sensitivity (i.e., received power),
what is the required transmit power to attain a desired range?
OR
what is the attainable range for a given transmit power?
Must account for transmit and receive directivities, path loss, and
add on a link margin (for unmodeled, unforseen contingencies)
Link budget analysis
Basic comm theory maps modulation & coding scheme to Eb/N0
requirement; we then need to map to received power needed

Receiver sensitivity: minimum received power required to attain


a desired error probability
(depends on the modulation scheme, bit rate, channel model,
receiver noise figure)

We can now design the physical link parameters: transmit and receive
antennas, transmit power, link range

Link budget: Once we know the receiver sensitivity, we can work


backward and figure out the physical link parameters required
to deliver the required received power (plus a margin of safety)
Example 60 GHz indoor link budget
2.5 Gbps link using QPSK and rate 13/16 code operating 2 dB
from Shannon limit

Noise figure 6 dB

Receiver sensitivity = -71.5 dBm


4x4 antenna array at each end, 2 dBi gain per element
 14 dBi gain at each end

10 m range  free-space path loss is about 88 dB

Transmit power with 10 dB link margin is only about -1.5 dBm!


( can use less directive antennas)
Example 100 m outdoor 60 GHz link
(backhaul, base-to-mobile)
Using 10 m indoor link budget as reference
Free space propagation loss increases by 20 dB

Oxygen absorption (16 dB/km) leads to 1.6 dB additional loss

Rain margin (25 dB/km for 2 inches/hr): 2.5 dB

Required transmit power goes up to 22.6 dBm


For 4x4 array, TX power per element is 10.6 dBm
(doable with CMOS, easy with SiGe)
EIRP = 22.6 dBm + 14 dBi = 36.6 dBm < FCC EIRP limit of 40 dBm
What the link budgets tell us
• 60 GHz is well matched to indoor networking and to
picocellular networks
– Oxygen absorption has limited impact at moderate ranges
– Heavy rain can be accommodated in link budget
– Moderate directivity suffices
– Electronically steerable links give flexibility in networking
– Low-cost silicon implementations are possible
• For truly long range, need to avoid oxygen absorption
– 64-71 (unlicensed), 71-76, 81-86 GHz (semi-unlicensed)
– Bands above 100 GHz
– Need very high directivity (can we steer effectively?)

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