ABSTRACT

Bunyamin, A Software Package for Telecommunication System Link Budget Analysis  (supervised by Zulfajri B. Hasanuddin and Rhiza S. Sadjad).

This is a design project to develop an application software package to use computer as an aid for the link budget calculation of several telecommunication systems. Three types of telecommunication media are considered, i.e. the open space medium for both the satellite and terrestrial communication systems, the cable connection in the wired communication systems and the fiber-optic link. The software development is taking the advantage of the object-oriented programming method of Borland Delphi tools.

The case of Makassar (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) area is considered as an example. The area is located between the latitudes of X1o Y1‘ Z1‘’ and X2o Y2‘ Z2‘’ South and the longitudes of J1o K1‘ L1‘’ and J2o K2‘ L2‘’ East. It is covering an area of mmmm meter X  nnnn meter wide. On the computer screen, the area is represented by a drawing of ppp pixels X qqq pixels geographical map.

The computation of all gain and losses of all components due to the variation of all telecommunication parameters in each link, from the transmitting side to the receiving side, is considered. The program automatically gives the results right after a user completing the input parameters. The software package is expected to be useful for educational use, therefore a report form of every link budget calculation is provided by the program as the output.     

Keywords: link budget, gain, losses, object-oriented programming