EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Table 2 SNR thresholds

From: An energy-efficient communication system using joint beamforming in multi-hop health monitoring sensor networks

	SNR threshold	SNR threshold
	with beamforming	without beamforming
QPSK, code rate 1/2	8 dB	19 dB
QPSK, code rate 2/3	9 dB	20 dB
16QAM code rate 1/2	11 dB	23 dB
16QAM code rate 2/3	13 dB	25 dB
64QAM code rate 1/2	17 dB	29 dB
64QAM code rate 2/3	19 dB	31 dB

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