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For any communication system the Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise-Ratio of the link is a fundamental metric. Recall (cf. Chapter 9) that the SINR is defined as the ratio between the received power of the signal of interest and the sum of all “disturbing” power sources (i.e. interference and noise). From information theory it is known that a higher SINR increases the maximum possible error-free transmission rate (referred to as Shannon capacity [417] of any communication system and vice versa). Conversely, the higher the SINR, the lower will be the bit error rate in practical systems. While one aspect of the SINR is the sum of all distracting power sources, another issue is the received power. This depends on the transmitted power, the used antennas, possibly on signal processing techniques and ultimately on the channel gain between transmitter and receiver.
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Schmitz, A., Schinnenburg, M., Gross, J., Aguiar, A. (2010). Channel Modeling. In: Wehrle, K., Güneş, M., Gross, J. (eds) Modeling and Tools for Network Simulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12331-3_11
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