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Wireless communication relies on a strong received signal for best performance, whether that performance is high data transmission speeds or clarity of analog voice communications. A weak signal leads to higher error rates, leading to a reduction in data throughput and increased noise and static in voice transmissions.

Let’s look at the example of an 802.11g (WiFi) signal. For this example, we want to maintain a 24 Mbps data connection with greater than 95% time availability. The parameters of the data link are shown in Table 1.