Mobile Broadcast Technologies - Link Budgets

Update 02/2009

For the planning of radio networks, a traditional approach consists of defining the required minimum median field strength that must be offered in a target area and then predict the locations where this level can be reached, using planning tools.

This document intends to list, for the various usage scenarios, what standard field strength values should be used for the network planning of DVB-T, DVB-H, T-DMB, MediaFLO and DVB- SH services. In addition, it also provides the corresponding required minimum terminal sensitivity in each usage scenario.

This document is an update of the bmcoforum white paper on link budgets, first published in 2007. The second version is based on the latest additional performance test results available for the most prominent Mobile Broadcast Technologies in Europe. It also gives practical reference terminal sensitivity figures, and numerous technical clarifications.