Fade margin

Intelecommunications,the termfade margin(fading margin) has the following meanings:

• A design allowance that provides for sufficientsystemgainorsensitivityto accommodate expectedfading,for the purpose of ensuring that the requiredquality of serviceis maintained.
• The amount by which areceived signal levelmay be reduced without causing system performance to fall below a specified threshold value. It is mainly used to describe a communication system such assatellite,for example a system likeglobalstaroperates at 25-35 dB Fade margin.

See also

• Multipath propagation
• Link Budget

References

This article incorporatespublic domain materialfromFederal Standard 1037C.General Services Administration.Archived fromthe originalon 2022-01-22.

• Attila Hilt, "Availability and Fade Margin Calculations for 5G Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Anyhaul Links", Applied Sciences, 2019, 9(23), 5240;https://doi.org/10.3390/app9235240.,

Trevor Manning, "Microwave Radio Transmission Design Guide", 2nd edition; Artech House: London, UK, 2009.