Link budget calculation for downlink of E-UTRA FDD, UTRA FDD and GSM FDD

Transmitter unit at the BS Comment unit LTE value UMTS value GSM value
Max total power Pt [dBm] 46 46 44.5 a
Cable loss (incl. jumpers, combiners) [dB] 3 3 3b
CP loss [dB] 1 c
eNB antenna gain max [dBi] 18 18 18 d
EIRP (max azimuth) [dBm] 60 61 59.5 e=a-b-c+d
Receiver unit at the MS
Single PRB bandwidth [kHz] 180
#PRBs allocated to UE 25
Bandwidth allocated to UE BW_RX [kHz] 4500 5000 200 f
Noise density [W/Hz] 4.00E-21 4.00E-21 g
Noise figure F [dB] 7 7
Noise figure linear 5.01E+00 5.01E+00 h
Noise power N [W] 9.03E-14 1.00E-13 i=f*g*h
Noise power N [dBm] -100 -100 j
UE antenna gain [dBi] 0 0 k
Required SNIR SNIR_min [dB] 5 5 l
Min required RX power for SNIR_min Pr_min [dBm] -95 -95 -104 n = j+l-k
Total available path loss
For SNIR_min [dB] 155 156 164 p=e-n
Other gains and losses
Shadowing margin [dB] 3 3 3 r
Fast fading margin [dB] 10 10 10 s
Building penetration loss (indoor) [dB] 0 0 0 t
Body loss [dB] 0 0 3 u
Multiuser scheduling gain [dB] 0 v
Multiantenna diversity gain [dB] 10 10 3w
Interference margin [dB] 5 5 0x
Total [dB] -8 -8 -13 y=v+w-r-s-t-u-x
Max allowed propagation losses
For SNIR_min [dB] 147 148 151 z=p+y
Ranges
Cell range for SNIR_min [km] 3.26962125 3.380054062 3.942254711

Note: before calculating link budget for your particular system, please check the values of all the
applicable parameters so that thet match with your system environment.
 1.38E-23 [W s/K] Boltzman constant
290 [K] receiver temperature
2.6 [GHz] carrier frequency
300000000 [m/s] speed of light
0.1153846 [m] lambda
3.14159 pi