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Table 5

Sensitivities from typical equipment used to compare the different technologies for SISO and MIMO [28, 29].

Sensitivity (dBm)
Wifi and NV2		WiMAX
MCS0	−96	BPSK 1/2	−92
MCS1	−95	QPSK 1/2	−91
MCS2	−92	QPSK 3/4	−89
MCS3	−90	16 QAM 1/2	−87
MCS4	−86	16 QAM 3/4	−84
MCS5	−83	64 QAM 2/3	−80
MCS6	−77	64 QAM 3/4	−76
MCS7	−74	—	—
MCS8	−95	BPSK 1/2	−94
MCS9	−93	QPSK 1/2	−93
MCS10	−90	QPSK 3/4	−92
MCS11	−87	16 QAM 1/2	−89
MCS12	−84	16 QAM 3/4	−85
MCS13	−79	64 QAM 2/3	−81
MCS14	−78	64 QAM 3/4	−79
MCS15	−75	—	—