TABLE III. Relationship Between Conventional Performance Metrics and Infectious Particle Transmission.

Traditional performance metric	Infectious particle transmission
Received power (signal-to-noise ratio)	Heat map
Communication range	Infection range
Beamforming	Shapes of aerosol clouds
Signal blocking / shadowing	Masks, protective screens, and other obstacles
Retransmission	Consecutive respiratory events
Outage, bit/frame error rate	Probability of infection
Connectivity	Chain of infection, reproduction number
Throughput, data rate	Viral load
Latency (jitter)	Incubation time
Number of communication channels	Number of contacts