Noise margin
The technical term Noise Margin (German about reserve a signal level to the noise level ) designated in the Telecommunications those levels to which a useful signal to a information receiver to be larger than a disturbance variable, in order error free reception to enable the useful signal. The noise is a physical quantity of noise (Engl. Noise described).
In other words, the noise margin represents a lower limit of the signal-to-noise ratio that the receiver needs for error-free reception of the transmitted information. If the signal-to-noise ratio is smaller than the noise margin, there will be transmission errors during data transmission. The noise margin can become too small due to the effect of a disturbance that is too large, such as noise, or due to the attenuation of the useful signal level in the transmission channel .
Like the signal-to-noise ratio, the noise margin is measured as a dimensionless quantity in the unit Bel . In the telecommunications sector , for example with digital subscriber lines (DSL), this value should not fall below 3 dB to 4 dB.
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