DUPLEX SPACING

Bill Alberth
July 2012
Motorola Mobility Internal
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Rules of Thumb for Duplex Filters

Avoid Bandwidth > 4% of center frequency
At 600MHz, like to keep filter bandwidth <24MHz
Avoid Duplex gap < 1%
7MHz gap at 700MHz, 26MHz gap at 2.6GHz
Figure of Merit (bandwidth/duplex gap) < 4
Distance to nearest interferer
We need 6MHz to drop a filter skirt at 700MHz
We need 12MHz to drop a filter skirt at 2.6GHz

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AVOID LARGE DUPLEX GAPS

Large gaps in uplink/downlink frequency result in large
differences in uplink/downlink effective cell sizes.
Consider TDD allocations instead of pairing widely disparate
frequencies.
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1300

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1153

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DLSINR=3dB
DLDataRate=3.7Mbps

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ULSINR=5dB
ULDataRate=0.92 Mbps

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CarrierFrequency(MHz)
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AVOID VARIABLE DUPLEX GAPS

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