f possible. The report made after site selection should have more detailed information. This may contain the height of the building/green-field, coordinates, antenna configuration (location, tilt, azimuth, etc.), maps, and a top view of the site with exact location of the base station and the antennas (both radio and transmission). 2.4 RADIO NETWORK DETAILED PLANNING 2.4.1 The Link (or Power) Budget The detailed radio network plan can be sub-divided into three sub-plans: (1) link budget calculation, (2) coverage, capacity planning and spectrum efficiency, (3) parameter planning. Link budget calculations give the loss in the signal strength on the path between the mobile station antenna and base station antenna. These calculations help in defining the cell ranges along with the coverage thresholds. Coverage threshold is a downlink power budget that gives the signal strength at the cell edge (border of the cell) for a given location probability. As the link budget calculations basically include the power transmission between the base station (including the RF antenna) and the mobile station antenna, we shall look into the characteristics of these two pieces of equipment from the link budget perspective. Link budget calculations are done for both the uplink and downlink. As the power transmitted by the mobile station antenna is less than the power transmitted by the base station antenna, the uplink power budget is more critical than the downlink power budget. Thus, the sensitivity of the base station in the uplink direction becomes one of the critical factors as it is related to reception of the power transmitted by the mobile station antenna. In the downlink direction, transmitted power and the gains of the antennas are important parameters. In terms of losses in the equipment, the combiner loss and the cable loss are to be considered. Combiner loss comes only in the downlink calculations while the cable loss has to be incorporated in both directions. For the other equipment (i.e. the MS), the transmitted power in 