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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Link budget, fade margin?

Also known as: link budget · fade margin

Definition 14.4 Networks, Hardware and Trading Infrastructure · Chapter 14 — Long-Haul Wireless

A link’s link budget adds the transmitter’s power and the antennas’ gains and subtracts the path’s losses to give the power received. Its fade margin is the received power minus the least power at which the receiver still decodes the signal at the required error rate: the loss the link can absorb before it fails.

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