Link Budget Analysis

Satellite link budget analysis and path propagation loss

Satellite Communications Toolbox provides link budget analysis capabilities and RF propagation models.

Use Satellite Link Budget Analyzer app to analyze, design, and visualize a link budget for satellite communications.
Model RF propagation paths to calculate atmospheric loss for a signal.

Apps

Analyze static and time-varying link budgets for satellite communications (Since R2021a)

`p618PropagationLosses`	Calculate Earth-space propagation losses, cross-polarization discrimination, and sky noise temperature (Since R2021a)
`p618SiteDiversityOutage`	Calculate outage probability due to rain attenuation with site diversity (Since R2021a)
`satelliteCNR`	Carrier-to-noise ratio for configured satellite link budget parameters (Since R2022b)

`p618Config`	Create P.618 configuration object (Since R2021a)
`p618SiteDiversityConfig`	Create P.618 site diversity configuration object (Since R2021a)
`satelliteCNRConfig`	Carrier-to-noise ratio configuration parameters (Since R2022b)

Get Started with Satellite Link Budget Analyzer App
Create, configure, analyze, and visualize link budgets for satellite communications.
Satellite Link Budget
Explore the factors that influence the satellite link budget analysis and derive the power budget equations for C/N_o and link margin.

Analyze link budget for optical communication inter-satellite link, uplink, and downlink.

Compute link budget for NB-IoT NTN.

Model and import a satellite scenario in time-varying Satellite Link Budget Analyzer app.

Perform sensitivity analysis by using an exported MATLAB® script from the Satellite Link Budget Analyzer app.

Optimize satellite link budget to maximize bit rate by using an exported MATLAB® script from the Satellite Link Budget Analyzer app.