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Cellular Area Throughput Calculator and Formula

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This page explains the Cellular Area Throughput Calculator and provides the Area Throughput Formula or equation.

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Area throughput is defined as the amount of information bits that can be successfully delivered to a specific area per unit time. It’s measured in units of bit/sec/Km².

EXAMPLE:

  • INPUTS:
    • Bandwidth (B) = 20 MHz
    • D = 50 Cells/Km²
    • SE = 4.08 bits/sec/Hz
  • OUTPUT:
    • Area Throughput = 4080 bits/sec/Km²

Cellular Area Throughput Formula

The following equation or formula is used for the Cellular area throughput calculator.

Cellular Area throughput formula

Where:

  • B is Bandwidth
  • D is cell density (Number of cells per Km²)
  • SE is spectral efficiency per cell

Spectral efficiency is defined as the amount of information bits per second sent to a cell over one Hz of Bandwidth.

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