ACP Marker Calculations

The ACP Adjacent Channel Power: The power from a modulated communications channel that leaks into an adjacent channel. This leakage is usually specified as a ratio to the power in the main channel, but is sometimes an absolute power. marker performs an adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR Adjacent Channel Power Ratio - A measurement of the amount of interference, or power, in the adjacent frequency channel. ACPR is usually defined as the ratio of the average power in the adjacent frequency channel (or offset) to the average power in the transmitted frequency channel. ACPR is a critical measurement for CDMA transmitters and their components. It describes the amount of distortion generated due to nonlinearities in RF components. The ACPR measurement is not part of the cdmaOne standard.) measurement. The fundamental data results required for this measurement are the reference channel power and the adjacent channel power ratio for the lower and upper channels. These results are computed as follows (the results are not normalized per unit Hertz):

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See Also

ACP Marker properties (Markers)

Making an ACP Measurement (Markers)

ACP Summary Table (Markers)