# 10.3.1 Relative positioning of interfering link (Generic system) The relative position of the Victim Receiver (VLR) and the Interfering Transmitter (ILT) depends on the various options presented below. There is a unique simulation radius (Rsimu) contrary to the 2 coverage radius (one for the victim and one for the interferer link). This is illustrated below in Figure 223 for a generic system interfering with a second generic system. See ‎ANNEX 12: for further details on the algorithm and conventions. ![image.png](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/scaled-1680-/iUAUq6nTJBfPkKMn-image.png)
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Depending on the system simulated several positioning options are possible when the generic system is the interferer and the victim is a generic system and cellular system as shown in Figure 224 and Figure 227 respectively. [![image.png](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/scaled-1680-/M1zpJaobXEloeNjK-image.png)](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/M1zpJaobXEloeNjK-image.png)
![](blob:https://ecowiki.atlassian.net/6562ca3a-ebe1-44ef-a3ad-1b035237e5ef#media-blob-url=true&id=bc32869a-7647-4b3b-991d-c24f701bda43&collection=contentId-493396&contextId=493396&width=322&height=142&alt=&clientId=113268fe-fe5b-4bc3-8ff3-07965dbf1d18)**Figure 224: Relative positioning of a generic interfering link with a generic victim system**
Each interfering signal calculation results from the contribution of - **None**: **nactive** interefering link transmitters located in a circular area with the simulation radius. You define yourself the radius. The random placement of the interefering link transmitters in this area is defined by the path azimuth and the path distance factor parameters. See Annex ‎A13.2.1 for detailed algorithm. **Table 42: ILT-VLR path - none mode (generic vs generic)**
**Description** **Symbol** **Type** **Unit** **Comments**
**Reference component** - - Positioning of the distributed component which is either the ILT or the ILR
**Position relative to** - - Positioning of the reference component relative to either the VLR or the VLT
**Delta X** ∆X Distribution or Scalar km Horizontal distance between the transmitter and receiver. It can be used to shift horizontally the distributed receivers
**Delta Y** ∆Y Distribution or Scalar km Vertical distance between the transmitter and receiver. It can be used to shift vertically the distributed receivers
**Set ILR at he center of the ILT distribution** - Boolean - set the distance factor distribution of the ILT with regards to the VLR. It overwrites the settings in the transmitter to reveicer path of the interferer
**Path azimuth** Distribution or Scalar Deg Horizontal angle for the location of the ILT respect to the victim link. If constant, the Rx’s location will be on a straight line. If not, the location of the Rx will be on an angular area. (See Annex ‎A12.3)
**Path distance factor** Distribution or Scalar Distance factor to describe path length between the ILT and VLR. This factor will be multiplied by Rsimu to obtain the coverage area. Therefore, the trialled distance between ILT and VLR will be Rsimu \*Path factor. E.g. if user enters a distribution 0…1, then the distance will be between 0 and Rsimu. If the path factor is constant, the ILT will be located on a circle around the VLR which means that the distance between the ILT and VLR will not change
**Simulation radius** Rsimu km User defined
**Number of active transmitter** nactive Scalar If nactive>1, this will result in spatially-independent generation of the specified number of Its, whereas the resulting total iRSS strength will be obtained by simple power summation of the individual iRSS signal values.
**Minimum coupling loss** MCL Distribution or Scalar dB The minimum path loss. It is used in the calculation of the effective path loss (Section ‎7.6)
**Protection distance** d0 Distribution or Scalar (km) minimum protection distance between the victim link receiver and interefering link transmitter (Section ‎A13.2.3)
**Use of polygon** You are also able to select a polygon shape as an alternative to the default circle. A various selection of polygon is available. You are able to rotate counter-clock wise (ccw) the polygon shape.
**Co-locate** This feature allows deploying two interferers at the same location and their two transmitters could be transmitting at the same time while having different transmitter characteristics (e.g. emission mask, antenna radiation pattern…)
- **Uniform density**: Each interfering signal calculation results from the contribution of **nactive interefering link transmitters** uniformly located in a circular area. The parameters are taken from the system settings (see section A13.2.2.) [![image.png](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/scaled-1680-/c9ar0AVvZlxhkwQX-image.png)](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/c9ar0AVvZlxhkwQX-image.png)
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**Table 43: ILT-VLR path - Uniform density mode (generic vs generic)**
**Description** **Symbol** **Type** **Unit** **Comments**
Reference component - - Positioning of the distributed component which is either the ILT or the ILR
Position relative to - Boolean - Positioning of the Reference component relative to either the VLR or the VLT
Delta X ∆X Distribution or Scalar km Horizontal distance between the transmitter and receiver. It can be used to shift horizontally the distributed receivers.
Delta Y ∆Y Distribution or Scalar km Vertical distance between the transmitter and receiver. It can be used to shift vertically the distributed receivers.
set ILR at he center of the ILT distribution - Boolean - Set the distance factor distribution of the ILT with regards to the VLR. It overwrites the settings in the transmitter to reveicer path of the interferer.
Path azimuth Distribution or Scalar Deg Horizontal angle for the location of the ILT respect to the victim link. If constant, the Rx’s location will be on a straight line. If not, the location of the Rx will be on an angular area. (See Annex ‎A12.3)
Number of active transmitter nactive Scalar Number of active interferers in the simulation (nactive should be sufficiently large so that the (n+1)th interferer would bring a negligible additional interfering power). If nactive>1, this will result in spatially-independent generation of the specified number of Its, whereas the resulting total iRSS strength will be obtained by simple power summation of the individual iRSS signal values.
Simulation radius Rsimu km ***Note:** the simulation radius value is readable only after each simulation*
Interferes density A simulation radius is calculated, Rsimu. Interefering link transmitters will be randomly deployed within the area centred on the Victim link receiver and delimited by the simulation radius Rsimu. If a protection is defined then Interefering link transmitters will be randomly deployed within the area centred in the Victim link receiver and delimited by the protection distance and the simulation radius Rsimu . See Table 46 for information on the input parameter and Annex ‎A13.2.2 for the calculation.
Minimum coupling loss MCL Distribution or Scalar dB The minimum path loss. It is used in the calculation of the effective path loss (Section ‎7.6)
Protection distance d0 Scalar (km) Minimum protection distance between the victim link receiver and interefering link transmitter (Section ‎A13.2.3)
Co-locate This feature allows deploying two interferers at the same location and their two transmitters could be transmitting at the same time while having different transmitter characteristics (e.g. emission mask, antenna radiation pattern…)
- **Closest interferer**: Each interfering signal calculation results from the contribution of **just one interefering link transmitter**. This ILT is randomly placed in a circular area with a simulation radius derived from the density of interferers. See Annex ‎A13.2.4 for detailed alogorithm. The parameters are taken from the system settings (see section A13.2.4). -
[![image.png](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/scaled-1680-/znsPonpTkJXaLFxe-image.png)](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/znsPonpTkJXaLFxe-image.png) Figure 226: Transmitter density and traffic **Table 44: ILT-VLR path - Closest interferer mode (generic vs generic)**
**Description** **Symbol** **Type** **Unit** **Comments**
Reference component - - Positioning of the distributed component which is either the ILT or the ILR
Position relative to - - - Positioning of the Reference component relative to either the VLR or the VLT
Delta X ∆X Distribution or Scalar km Horizontal distance between the transmitter and receiver. It can be used to shift horizontally the distributed receivers
Delta Y ∆Y Distribution or Scalar km Vertical distance between the transmitter and receiver. It can be used to shift vertically the distributed receivers
Set ILR at he center of the ILT distribution - Boolean - Set the distance factor distribution of the ILT with regards to the VLR. It overwrites the settings in the transmitter to reveicer path of the interferer
Path azimuth Distribution or Scalar Deg Horizontal angle for the location of the ILT respect to the victim link. If constant, the Rx’s location will be on a straight line. If not, the location of the Rx will be on an angular area. (See Annex ‎A1.1)
Number of active transmitter nactive Scalar Number of active interferers in the simulation (nactive should be sufficiently large so that the (n+1)th interferer would bring a negligible additional interfering power). If nactive>1, this will result in spatially-independent generation of the specified number of Its, whereas the resulting total iRSS strength will be obtained by simple power summation of the individual iRSS signal values
Simulation radius Rsimu km *Note: the simulation radius value is readable only after each simulation*
Interferes density The distance between the Victim link receiver and the Interefering link transmitter follows a Rayleigh distribution, where the standard deviation is given by . See Table 47 for information on the input parameter and Annex ‎A13.2.4 for the calculation
Minimum coupling loss MCL Distribution or Scalar dB The minimum path loss. It is used in the calculation of the effective path loss (Section ‎7.6)
Protection distance d0 Scalar (km) minimum protection distance between the victim link receiver and interefering link transmitter (Section ‎A13.2.3)
Co-locate This feature allows deploying two interferers at the same location and their two transmitters could be transmitting at the same time while having different transmitter characteristics (e.g. emission mask, antenna radiation pattern…)
- - **Correlated :** It is called the correlated mode. It means that the positions of the receiver and transmitter are geographically fixed with respect to each other (e.g. co-located or constantly spaced base stations). In the following four cases of fixed placement, the relative location of the two pair of transmitter and receiver is described by dX/dY displacement, with the origin being either on the Transmitter or Receiver of the victim link depending on the option selected;
**Table 45: ILT-VLR path – Correlated mode (generic vs generic)**
**Description** **Symbol** **Type** **Unit** **Comments**
Reference component - - Positioning of the distributed component which is either the ILT or the ILR
Position relative to - B - Positioning of the fixed interefer transmitter (ILT) or receiver (ILR) with the origin being. Reference component relative to either onthe VLR or the victim link transmitter (VLT) or receiver (VLR) on the option selected.
Delta X ∆X Distribution or Scalar km Horizontal distance between the transmitter and receiver. It can be used to shift horizontally the distributed receivers.
Delta Y ∆Y Distribution or Scalar km Vertical distance between the transmitter and receiver. It can be used to shift vertically the distributed receivers.
Minimum coupling loss MCL Distribution or Scalar dB The minimum path loss. It is used in the calculation of the effective path loss (Section ‎7.6)
In the case the victim system is a cellular system (CDMA or OFDMA, either UL or DL), the options are slightly changed as shown below, where Position relative to is always the BS of the reference cell. [![image.png](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/scaled-1680-/BzirUuSicCnBiE6u-image.png)](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/BzirUuSicCnBiE6u-image.png)
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**Figure 227: Relative positioning of a generic interfering link with a cellular victim system** [![image.png](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/scaled-1680-/N82N8H5Jbw4bZpJw-image.png)](https://wiki.cept.org/uploads/images/gallery/2026-04/N82N8H5Jbw4bZpJw-image.png)
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