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WLAN Distance Planning:
  • For 802.11b/g the maximum EIRP is 20dBm. For 802.11a in the 5.15 - 5.35 MHz band is 23 dBm. For 802.11a in the 5.47 - 5.735 MHz band is 30 dBm.
  • If the Indoor Channel Model is selected, slow- and fast-fading margin can be set to zero. Morover, this model also assumes walls, i.e. also the indoor loss can be set to zero. Noise rise is 0 dB for WLAN
  • Typical antenna gain for an AP with 2 antennas is 3 dBi, for a notebook with usual antenna the gain is 0 dBi.

UMTS Distance Planning:
  • Typical transmit power of a UMTS mobile is 21 dBm
  • Antenna gain for the mobile is usually 0 dBi, for the Basesstation between 15 and 20 dBi
  • For low rate services such as speech receiver sensitivity is about -120 dBm, for high rate service (384 kBit/s) it is about -102 dBm
  • Body loss at the mobile is 2-3 dB
  • Cable loss at the Basestation is typically 2-4 dB
  • Fast Fading margin depends on the mobile speed. Typical values: 0..8 dB
  • Slow Fading margin depends on the obstacles between sender and receiver. Typical values: 5..10 dB
  • Macro Diversity gain is typically 3 dB
  • In-car Loss is typically 8 dB
  • Noise rise due to interference from other users is 3 dB for low loaded and 9 dB for fully loaded cells
  • For NLOS Outdoor environment the pathloss exponent increases with increasing amount of obstacles between sender and receiver