Patent ID: 7925218

Claim:
A method for planning and/or dimensioning links between a plurality of stations or items in a wireless telecommunication system comprising the following steps: a) using an existing link, in logarithmic scale, to establish a relation between the ground equivalent radiated power, EIRPground, the signal to noise density ratio required (C/No)req for a link, and a quality indicator QaF, EIRP ground = ( C No ) req - QaF where C/No corresponds to the total signal to noise density ratio; b) determining the quality indicator QaF from the contribution of the first type disturbing items that are linear in EIRPground and the second type items that are non-linear in EIRPground, using: ( C No ) total - 1 = ∑ i = 1 p ⁢ ( C No ) i - 1 + ∑ j = p + 1 n ⁢ ( C No ) j - 1 where p corresponds to the first type terms that are linear in EIRPground and “n-p” to the second type terms that are non-linear in EIRPground, and c) determining the EIRPground by taking into account the quality indicator obtained and the C/N 0 required.