Research Article

Performance Evaluation of 5G Millimeter-Wave Cellular Access Networks Using a Capacity-Based Network Deployment Tool

Table 2

5G link budget parameters.

Parameters Values

Carrier frequency60 GHz
Channel bandwidth500 MHz
Transmit antenna element gain10 dBi
Transmit array antenna feed loss3 dB
TX power per base station antenna10 dBm
Number of receive antenna array elements4
Receive antenna element gain6 dbi
SNR(7.39, 15.4, 17.5) dB1
Path loss exponent3.5
mmWave penetration loss2 dB
mmWave atmospheric loss3.2 dB
Implementation loss3 dB
RX noise figure7 dB
Other losses (shadow, fading)20 dB

of signal-to-noise ratio corresponding to [1/2 BPSK, 1/2 QPSK, and 1/2 16-QAM] [20].