# 5.2.4 Reception characteristics

This panel consists in setting of the receiver characteristics of the generic system:

<div class="fabric-editor-block-mark fabric-editor-alignment align-center" data-align="center" id="bkmrk-table-12%3A-reception-"><div class="inline-extension-renderer css-e2q2ep"></div>**Table 12: Reception characteristics GUI**</div><div class="pm-table-container with-shadow-observer" data-layout="align-start" data-testid="table-container" id="bkmrk-description-symbol-t"><div class="pm-table-wrapper" data-autosize="false" data-layout="align-start" data-number-column="false" data-table-local-id="" data-vc="table-node-wrapper"><div class="sentinel-left"></div><table data-layout="align-start" data-number-column="false" data-table-width="760" data-testid="renderer-table" style="width: 100%;"><colgroup></colgroup><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">**Description**

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">**Symbol**

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">**Type**

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">**Unit**

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">**Comments**

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">Noise floor: define a distribution of the noise floor

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*N*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Distribution or Scalar

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">dBm

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">See section 1.2.3 for further details

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">Blocking mode

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*-*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Boolean

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">-

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">Blocking mode and associated blocking mask

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">Blocking response: Receiver frequency response (receiver blocking performance)

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*blocking*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Function (X,Y)

(MHz)

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">dBm or dB depend. on mode

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">Receiver mask attenuation (positive or negative values depending on the chosen blocking mode, see below) versus frequency, see ANNEX 8:

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">Intermodulation rejection: Intermodulation response (intermodulation interference)

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*intermod*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Function (X,Y)

(MHz)

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">dB

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">Receiver mask at the intermodulation frequency. (see Annex A5.3 for further details)

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">Receive power dynamic range

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*Pc<sub data-renderer-mark="true">max</sub>*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Scalar

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">dB

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">Used in the calculation of the dRSS. It is the maximum range of the received power that the <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">VLR</span></span></span> can accept, in terms of the maximum receive power over the <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">VLR</span>’s sensitivity threshold.

If the trialled dRSS value exceeds *sens+Pc<sub data-renderer-mark="true">max</sub>* , the dRSS is set to the latter value. See ANNEX 14:.

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">**Sensitivity**

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*sens*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Scalar

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">dBm/<span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">VLR</span> reception bandwidth

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">Sensitivity of the receiver. See Section 1.2.4

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">**Reception bandwidth**: Operating bandwidth

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*B*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Scalar

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">kHz

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">Bandwidth of the receiver.

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">**Overloading**

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*-*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Boolean

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">-

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">When selected, the overloading calclulation is performed. See Annex A5.4 for further details.

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">**Overloading threshold**

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*Oth*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Function (X,Y)

(MHz)

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">dBm

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">It is the maximum interfering signal level close to which the receiver loses its ability to discriminate against interfering signals at frequencies differing from that of the wanted signal

</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 24.3089%;">**Receiver filter**

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 9.89037%;">*Rx\_filter*

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 12.2722%;">Function (X,Y)

(MHz)

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 20.2587%;">dB

</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="width: 33.3651%;">Filtering of the receiver (if any). The filtering of the receiver is by default 0 dB (similarly to the default blocking filtering value). It is used in connection with the overloading calculation.

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