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Link budget
Accounting of signal gains and losses in communications
Link budget
A link budget is an accounting of all of the power gains and losses that a communication signal experiences in a telecommunication system, from a transmitter, through a communication channel such as radio waves, cables, waveguides, or optical fibers, to the receiver. It is an equation giving the received power from the transmitter power, after the attenuation of the transmitted signal due to propagation, as well as the antenna gains and feedline and other losses, and amplification of the signal in the receiver or any repeaters it passes through. A link budget is a design aid, calculated during the design of a communication system to determine the received power, to ensure that the information is received intelligibly with an adequate signal-to-noise ratio. In most real-world systems, the losses must be estimated to some degree, and may vary. A link margin is therefore specified as a safety margin between the received power and minimum power required by the receiver to accurately detect...
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