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Table 2.

Reference link budget configuration achieving the minimum requirement of MCL = 164 dB for 5G mMTC systems as defined by IMT-2020 [19] with 32 and 128 repetitions in uplink and downlink (adapted from [6]).

	NPUSCH 164 dB MCL Ref. Performance	NPDSCH 164 dB MCL Ref. Performance
Transmit Power $P_{T X}$ (dBm)	23	35
TBS (Bit)	1000	680
Repetitions $N_{R e p}$	32 (max. 128)	128 (max. 2048)
Resource Units $N_{R U}$	10	8
BLER (%)	10	10
$S N R_{m i n}$ (dB)	−13.8	−14.7
Noise Figure NF (dB)	5	7
Interference Margin (IM) (dB) ¹ (1)	0	0
Sensitivity $P_{R x, m i n}$ (dBm)	−141	−129
MCL (dB)	164	164

¹ In mobile networks, additional interference degrades the MCL, especially in dense urban areas.