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Table 1 Link budget parameters--FL

From: Linear and nonlinear techniques for multibeam joint processing in satellite communications

Parameter

Value

Orbit

GEO

Frequency band

Ka (20 GHz)

User link bandwidth

500 MHz

Number of beams

7

Beam diameter

600 Km

TWTA RF power @ saturation

130 W

Frequency reuse factor (conventional scheme)

4

Free space loss

210 dB

Receiver noise power N

-118 dBW

Max satellite antenna gain G T

52 dBi

Max user antenna Gain G R

41.7 dBi

Downlink free space loss

210 dB

Fading margin

3 dB

Rain fading mean

-2.6 dB

Rain fading variance

1.63 dB

Receive SNR

21 dB