Experimental investigation in controlled conditions of the impact of dynamic spectrum sharing on maximum-power extrapolation techniques for the assessment of human exposure to electromagnetic fields generated by 5G gNodeB


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Experimental investigation in controlled conditions of the 
impact of dynamic spectrum sharing on maximum-power 
extrapolation techniques for the assessment of human 
exposure to electromagnetic fields generated by 5G gNodeB 

Sara Adda1, Tommaso Aureli2, Tiziana Cassano3, Daniele Franci2, Marco D. Migliore4, Nicola Pasquino5, 
Settimio Pavoncello2, Fulvio Schettino4, Maddalena Schirone3 

1 ARPA Piemonte, Dipartimento Rischi Fisici e Tecnologici, Via Jervis 30, 10015 Ivrea (TO), Italy  
2 ARPA Lazio, 00172 Rome, Italy  
3 ARPA Puglia, UOS Agenti Fisici, DAP Bari, Corso Trieste 27, 70126 Bari, Italy 
4 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione (DIEI) “Maurizio Scarano", University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Cassino, 
  03043, and CNIT Cassino, and Eledia@UNICas, Italy 
5 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e delle Tecnologie dell’Informazione (DIETI), Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80125 Napoli,  
  Italy  

 

 

Section: RESEARCH PAPER  

Keywords: Dynamic spectrum sharing; maximum-power extrapolation; DSS; 4G; 5G; human exposure; measurements  

Citation: Sara Adda, Tommaso Aureli, Tiziana Cassano, Daniele Franci, Marco D. Migliore, Nicola Pasquino, Settimio Pavoncello, Fulvio Schettino, Maddalena 
Schirone, Experimental investigation in controlled conditions of the impact of dynamic spectrum sharing on maximum-power extrapolation techniques for 
the assessment of human exposure to electromagnetic fields generated by 5G gNodeB, Acta IMEKO, vol. 11, no. 3, article 18, September 2022, identifier: 
IMEKO-ACTA-11 (2022)-03-18 

Section Editor: Francesco Lamonaca, University of Calabria, Italy 

Received March 17, 2022; In final form September 15, 2022; Published September 2022 

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Corresponding author: Nicola Pasquino, e-mail: nicola.pasquino@unina.it  

 

1. INTRODUCTION 

Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) is becoming a key 
technology in the implementation of 5G networks thanks to 
several practical advantages. DSS provides 5G services on 4G 
Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, thus allowing to use the 
4G facilities for a quick deployment of 5G networks without the 
need of new frequency bands, not always available to local 
operators. Consequently, it is a simple solution that requires 
basically only software updates, allowing operators to start 
nationwide 5G coverage with limited costs. Furthermore, the use 

of 4G frequency bands allows better area coverage and indoor 
penetration compared to sub-6 GHz and Frequency Range 2 
(FR2) (24.25 GHz to 52.6 GHz) used in both Non-Standalone 
(NSA) and Standalone (SA) 5G networks. In this paper, an 
experimental investigation is presented to evaluate if this 
technological solution impacts the outcomes of measurement 
techniques used to assess the compliance with electromagnetic 
fields (EMF) exposure limits. 

Maximum-Power Extrapolation (MPE) measurement has 
been object of a consolidated literature, and standards for MPE 
measurements are available [1]. 5G is a more recent technology, 
however, although standards are still under development, MPE 

ABSTRACT 
Maximum-Power Extrapolation (MPE) techniques adopted for 4G and 5G signals are applied to systems using Dynamic Spectrum Sharing 
(DSS) signals generated by a base station and transferred to the measurement instruments through an air interface adapter to obtain a 
controlled environment. This allowed to focus the analysis on the effect of the frame structure on the MPE procedure, excluding the 
random effects associated to fading phenomena affecting signals received in real environments. The analysis confirms that both the 4G 
MPE and the proposed 5G MPE procedure can be used for DSS signals, provided that the correct number of subcarriers in the DSS frame 
is considered. 

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procedures have been described in a few research papers [2]-[6]. 
5G DSS is midstream between 4G and 5G technology. In this 
paper MPE techniques adopted for 4G signals and 5G signals 
are applied to DSS signals. In particular, the DSS signals 
generated by an actual base station have been connected to the 
measurement equipment through an Air Interface Adapter 
(AIAD). This allows to focus the analysis on the effect of the 
frame structure on the MPE procedure, excluding the random 
effects due to fading phenomena affecting signals received in real 
environments. The results confirm that both 4G and 5G MPE 
extrapolation techniques allow a correct estimation of the MPE 
level of DSS signals, provided that the correct number of the 
subcarriers in the DSS frame is considered. 

2. THE DYNAMIC SPECTRUM SHARING TECHNIQUE 

As noted in the Introduction, Spectrum Sharing (SS) allows 
network operators to implement 5G NR using existing LTE 
frequency bands, with relatively inexpensive software upgrades. 
There are two possible solutions to LTE-NR coexistence: Static 
Spectrum Sharing (SSS), where the frequency band is statically 
assigned to either system over time, and DSS, where resources 
are switched between LTE and 5G dynamically over time. SSS is 
less attracting than DSS, particularly in the current state of 5G 
implementation, where penetration of 5G devices is still limited 
and most traffic is on LTE, providing an almost fully loaded 4G 
carrier and an almost empty 5G carrier. This strongly pushes 
towards the implementation of DSS which allows LTE and 5G 
NR to share spectrum resources dynamically based on the 
current traffic demand, thus employing the entire available 
bandwidth more efficiently. Accordingly, the solution currently 
adopted in Italy is DSS. DSS supports 5G numerology with µ = 0 

(15 kHz subcarrier spacing) and µ = 1 (30 kHz spacing). 
Although, as will be briefly discussed below, implementation of 
µ = 1 numerology in a 4G frame is less complex than the use of 
µ = 0, in this Section we will focus our attention on the DSS 
technology with µ = 0 download frame structure, since it is the 
same adopted in the signals used in the presented experimental 
activity.  

To avoid imperfect signal synchronization, in case of LTE-
NR coexistence, it is crucial to avoid overlapping between NR 
Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) and LTE Reference Signal 
(CRS). 

Let us consider the LTE frame.  The CRS is transmitted in 4 
(using 1 or 2 antenna ports) or 6 (when using 4 antenna ports) 
non-contiguous OFDM symbols of each subframe. With respect 
to NR, SSB requires four consecutive OFDM symbols. In case 
of µ = 1, two NR Resource Elements (REs) occupy the duration 
of an LTE RE (whose spacing is 15 kHz). Consequently, an SSB 
only occupies two LTE symbols. This makes it possible to insert 
the SSBs in the LTE frame in a simple way, since in the LTE 
frame the distance between two consecutive CRS is greater than 
the duration of two LTE OFDM symbols in case of any number 
of antenna ports. 

Things become more involved when a 5G signal with µ = 0 
numerology must be inserted in an LTE frame. In fact, as noted 
above, there are only 3 contiguous OFDM symbols without any 
CRS transmissions, while SSB requires 4 symbols with 15 kHz 
subcarrier spacing.  

The solution currently applied involves the use of 4G 
Multimedia Broadcast multicast service Single Frequency 
Network (MBSFN) subframes. MBSFN has been introduced in 
the LTE standard as part of release 9 for point-to-multipoint 
communication to provide broadcast and multicast services 
(evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (eMBMS)). 
The network can configure six out of ten subframes forming the 
LTE radio frame to become MBSFN subframes.  Based on the 
3GPP standard, these could be subframes #1, #2, #3, #6, #7, 
and #8 of a radio frame. A standard LTE terminal reads in the 
MBSFN configuration from system information in block Type 2 
(SIB2) and ignores the subframes configured for broadcast. To 
allow effective broadcasting transmission, the MBSFN 
subframes reserve only the first 2 OFDM symbols to carry the 
control channels for LTE, while the remaining ones are reserved 
for eMBMS (Figure 1). These symbols are consequently “free".  

To better explain this point, that is important for the MPE 
procedure, in Figure 2 an example of a DSS frame structure 
(right) is qualitatively compared with the spectrum of the DSS 

 

Figure 1. An example of LTE/NR subframe; the first two time slots are always 
reserved to LTE. 

 

Figure 2. Qualitative relationship between the spectrum of the LTE signal, the spectrum of the DSS signal and the DSS frame.  



 

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signal (centre). Furthermore, the spectrum of a legacy 4G signal 
(i.e., without DSS) is shown in the left. Regarding the DSS frame 
structure, we can note an MBSFN in the second subframe, where 
the SSB of the 5G signal is placed. The 4G signal uses the upper 
half part of the remaining subframes, while the 5G signal uses 
the lower half part of these subframes, and the part not used by 
the SSB of the MBSF subframe. Note that 5G does not use the 
first two symbol of the frames, that are reserved to 4G. The 
spectrum of the DSS is shown in the centre figure. The useful 
spectrum is in the A-A’ frequency range. The left plot shows an 
example of a standard 4G spectrum. Due to the presence of a 
larger band-guard, the useful portion of the spectrum is limited 
to the B-B’ frequency range, obtaining a lower number of 
subcarriers. 

In practice, although both 4G and 5G standard signals occupy 
a nominal bandwidth of 20 MHz, the actual useful bandwidth for 
a 5G signal is 1.08 MHz larger than the corresponding 4G 
bandwidth, i.e., 19.08 vs 18 MHz. Accordingly, the number of 
subcarriers of a 20 MHz nominal-bandwidth DSS signal is 1272. 
All of them are available for 5G signals, while only 1200 are used 
for LTE signals. 

3. MAXIMUM-POWER EXTRAPOLATION TECHNIQUE FOR 
4G AND 5G SIGNALS 

The final goal of the MPE procedure is the estimation of 

the maximum field level Emax that could be reached in the 
measurement point [ 1 ] . This quantity is used as a reference to 

estimate the EMF exposure in realistic conditions by a suitable 
scaling factor [1], [7]-[15].  

Both 4G and 5G use OFDMA. This gives many similarities 
that can be exploited for the MPE of DSS signals. More 
specifically, they require [1], [16]: 

a. Information on the structure of the frame (as 
bandwidth, numerology for 5G, duty cycle in case of 
TDD transmissions) necessary to identify the number of 
REs available for downlink transmission, 

b. the estimation of 𝐸RE
max, the maximum possible 

average EMF level associated to a RE. 

In 4G, 𝐸RE
max can be obtained considering the power of the 

REs associated to the Reference Signal (RS) of the 4G frame, 

let 𝐸RS be, that are transmitted at full power. According to [1], 
the maximum EMF level in the measurement location is then 
estimated as 

𝐸4G
max = 𝐸RS√

𝑁sc𝐹TDC
𝐹B

, (1) 

where 𝑁sc is the total number of subcarriers, 𝐹TDC is a duty cycle 
factor that describes the transmission scheme implemented by 

the signal, 𝐹B is a boosting factor that can be applied to the 4G 
control channels transmitted power to extend the coverage 
range. 

In 5G NR, the only signal that is always ‘on air’ is the SSB, 
that is transmitted at constant and maximum power. It must be 
noted that in NR it is possible to use different beams to transmit 
SSB (using broadcast beams) and payload data (using traffic 
beams). Accordingly, measurement of the power of the REs of 

the SSB in general does not allow a direct estimation of 𝐸5G
max, 

that is related to the traffic beams [5]. However, as discussed in 
the previous Section, DSS usually is obtained by only software 
upgrading of the 4G system. Consequently, SSB and payload data 

are transmitted on the same beam. This allows to estimate 𝐸5G
max 

directly from the measurement of SSB REs power. Following the 
experimental approach discussed in [17], the power of the REs 
associated to the Physical Broadcast Channel DeModulation 
Reference Signal (PBCH-DMRS) is used as input for the 
extrapolation formula: 

𝐸5G
max = 𝐸PBCH_DMRS√𝑁sc𝐹TDC𝐹beam, (2) 

where 𝐹beam is a correction factor that considers the difference 
between traffic and broadcast beams gain. It’s worth noticing 
that for DSS signals generated by passive MIMO systems like the 

one used in our experiment, 𝐹beam = 1 since SSB and traffic 
data share the same beam. 

4. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS 

An experimental session has been carried out in a dedicated 
facility, used by one of the main Italian telco companies for test 
purposes. Measurements were performed with the aim of gaining 
a suitable understanding of DSS system operation and thus 
defining an effective procedure for the assessment of the 
population exposure from DSS sources. The experimental setup 
used during this controlled-environment experimental session is 
described in the following: 

• a Keysight MXA N9020A Vector Signal Analyzer (VSA) 
with up to 20 MHz demodulation bandwidth, equipped 
with demodulation software for both 4G and 5G NR 
signals; 

• a Rhode & Schwarz FSVA3044 VSA with up to 400 MHz 
demodulation bandwidth, equipped with demodulation 
software for both 4G and 5G NR signals. 

The experimental setup is shown in Figure 3. To ensure a 
reliable emulation of both inputs and outputs according to the 
demands of real users, the signal generated by the base station 
has been transferred to an AIAD 8/8-4G+DL manufactured by 
MTS Systemtechnik. The aim of the AIAD is to emulate the air 
interface, allowing for testing of mobile radio base stations in a 
laboratory. Figure 4 shows the AIAD frontend with two coaxial 
cables used to transfer both MIMO branches of the DSS signal 
from the lower levels of the gNodeB to the antennas placed 
inside the AIAD chamber. The coaxial cable on the left of the 
figure is used to drive the test signal to the measurement 
instruments. The main characteristics of the generated signals are 
summarized in Table 1. 

To investigate 4G-5G sharing mechanism properly, different 
data traffic scenarios have been considered: 

• zero-traffic, 

• full-frame 4G-only traffic, 

• full-frame mixed 4G-5G traffic. 

 

Figure 3. Experimental setup used throughout the measurement campaign. 



 

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4.1. Zero-traffic scenario 

As a first step, a DSS signal with no data traffic was generated. 
Figure 5 shows the map of the demodulated power vs. 
symbol/carrier for an entire 10 ms DSS frame, made of ten 
consecutive subframes. The absence of user data traffic allows 
for an easy identification of both LTE and NR control channels: 

• LTE Primary and Secondary Synchronization Signals (PSS 
and SSS) and PBCH are transmitted in subframes 0 
(PSS+SSS+PBCH) and 5 (PSS+SSS only); these signals 
occupy about 1MHz at the centre of the signal bandwidth. 
In addition, the RS is located sparsely throughout the 
frame, according to the positions defined by 3GPP 
standard [18];  

• 5G NR Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) can be 
recognized in the MBSFN subframe 1, with a frequency 
offset of 7.65 MHz with respect to the centre of the signal 
bandwidth. According to µ = 0 numerology, the SSB 
bandwidth is equal to 3.6 MHz. 

Obviously, the peculiar allocation of the radio resources in 
DSS systems is specifically designed with the aim of avoiding any 
possible interference between different signals. Zero-span 
measurement is an alternative experimental approach useful to 
appreciate the resource allocation adopted by DSS. It provides 
the time-domain variation of the received power at a fixed 
frequency value. This method has the great advantage of 
providing a low-cost alternative to usage of top-notch, high 
expensive Vector Signal Analysers VSAs, since it can be 
accomplished by almost every traditional spectrum analyser. 
Figure 6 and Figure 7 show a 20-ms zero-span acquisition at 1850 
MHz (i.e., the centre of the signal bandwidth) and 1857.65 MHz 
(i.e., SSB centre frequency) respectively. A periodic trigger equal 
to the frame duration (i.e., 10 ms) has been applied to both the 
acquired spectra. 

When 1850 MHz is imposed as central frequency, the LTE 
control channels can be easily recognized in the acquired 
spectrum (Figure 6) as power bursts, spaced out 5 ms apart. 
Otherwise, when the central frequency is shifted to 1857.65 MHz 
(Figure 7), we can distinguish a unique power peak, 
corresponding to the 5G SSB. It is worth noting that LTE RS 
are present everywhere throughout the time frame, regardless of 
the centre frequency chosen for the measurement. The DSS 
signal was properly demodulated by both 4G and 5G analysis 
software, with both the routines characterized by an excellent 
synchronization with the DSS signal and reconstructed IQ 
constellations very close to the ideal ones. 

 

Figure 4. The AIAD used to transfer the signal from the base station to the 
measurement equipment. 

Table 1. CAPTION DSS Signal Configuration 

Center frequency fc 1850 MHz 

Bandwidth B 20 MHz 

Duplexing FFD 

Numerology  0 

Sub-carrier spacing f 15 kHz 

Cell Identity (CID) 255 

MIMO antennas 2 

MBSFN subframe indexes 1, 21, 22 

SSB allocation Case A with Lmax = 4 

SSB center frequency fssb 1857,65 MHz 

SSB per burst 1 

SSB transmission periodicity 20 ms 

 

Figure 5. Power vs. symbol × carrier map of a DSS frame in case of absence of 
user data traffic. 

 

Figure 6. Zero span measurement at 1850 MHz. 

 

Figure 7. Zero span measurement at 1857.65 MHz. 



 

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4.2. Full-frame traffic scenario 

Full-frame data traffic scenario has been achieved using a 
User Equipment (UE) in combination with the AIAD system, 
with the aim of forcing the saturation of the DSS frame through 
multi-thread FTP connections. To understand which schedule is 
used by the DSS system for resource allocation, two different 
scenarios have been considered: 

• 100 % 4G data traffic; 

• 50 % 4G – 50 % 5G data traffic. 
Following the approach used in the previous section, the map 

of the demodulated power vs. symbol/carrier has been acquired 
for both scenarios under investigation. Note that to appreciate 
the periodicity of the MBSFN subframes, the capture buffer has 
been extended to 4 radio frames (i.e., 40 ms). 

In absence of 5G users, and with heavy 4G traffic, all the 
subframes of a frame, except those configured as MBSFN, are 
used for 4G communication, as shown in Figure 8. In fact, 
MBSFN subframes (indexed as 1, 21 and 22) are not allowed to 
host 4G data transmission and, for this reason, they are left 
almost completely empty, except for 5G SSBs, which are located 
at the very top edge of DSS spectrum and transmitted once per 
couple of frames (20 ms). The presence of MBSFN subframes 
which are reserved for 5G transmission implies that a DSS frame 
cannot be entirely filled by 4G data traffic only. 

Figure 9 shows the case of large 4G and 5G data traffic. 4G 
data is placed in upper half- part of the no-MBSFN subframes, 
while 5G uses most of the lower part. As discussed in Section 2, 
the configuration of the 5G part of frame leaves free the REs 
required for 4G signalling, making the presence of 5G REs 
completely transparent for a 4G user. 

Note that the radio resource occupation is now more uniform 
than the previous case, although several blank regions – acting as 
guard intervals to avoid possible interferences between signals – 
are disseminated throughout the whole radio frame. 

4.3. MPE procedure applied to DSS 

The above-described code-domain analysis provides direct 
information on the following two quantities required for 
extrapolation procedures: 

• RS for 4G (𝑃RS), 

• PBCH-DMRS for 5G (𝑃PBCH−DMRS). 
To discuss the DSS MPE procedure, we consider the full-

frame condition configuration. This makes it possible to 
compare the results with the maximum reference power obtained 
by a Channel Power (CP) measurement acquired in the full-frame 
data traffic scenario. 

As discussed in the previous section, both 4G and 5G control 
channel coexist within the DSS frame. For this reason, both 4G 
and 5G MPE procedure – described by Eq. (3) and (4) 
respectively – can be applied: 

𝑃4G
max =

𝑁sc 𝐹TDC
𝐹B

𝑃RS (3) 

𝑃5G
max = 𝑁SC 𝐹beam 𝐹TDC 𝑃PBCH−DMRS  (4) 

Note that Eq. (3) and (4) represent the same MPE procedures 
described by Eq. (1) and (2), just applied in terms of maximum 
power instead of electric field. Regarding the measurement 
procedure, it is the same described in [1] for 4G and in [17] for 
5G. More specifically, code domain measurement of the DSS 
signal provides direct information on PRS and PPBCH_DMRS. 
According to the characteristic of the DSS signal, several 

assumptions about the parameters included in Eq. (3) and Eq. 
(4) can be made: 

• 𝐹TDC is assumed to be equal to 1 in both Eq. (3) and (4), 
since the DSS signal adopts the Frequency Division 
Duplexing (FDD) transmission mode. FDD allows uplink 
and downlink transmission over different frequency bands, 
so that no uplink-downlink time duty cycle is needed, 

• 𝐹B = 1 in Eq. (3), since no power boost is applied to 4G 
RS, 

• 𝐹beam = 1 in Eq. (4), since the passive antennas used for 
DSS signals are not allowed for beamforming. 

Regarding the 𝑁SC value, as pointed out in Sect. 2, although 
4G and 5G standard signals occupy a nominal bandwidth of 20 
MHz, the actual occupied bandwidth of a 5G signal is 1.08 MHz 
larger than the corresponding 4G bandwidth (i.e., 19.08 MHz vs. 
18 MHz), giving 1272 available subcarriers spaced by 15 kHz. 

Therefore, the value of 𝑁SC is assumed to be equal to 1272 in 
both Eq. (3) and (4). 

When a subframe transmits 4G signals only, just 1200 carriers 
are used. Accordingly, also in case of full use of the DSS 
resources, there are some unused REs in the frames. Indeed, only 
a fraction of such REs is related to the different number of 4G 
and 5G subcarriers, while the remaining ones are intrinsic in the 
4G as well as 5G subframe structures. The exact number of 
unused REs in case of full 4G/5G traffic depends on how the 
scheduler allocates the 4G and 5G data in the DSS frame. This 
is a decision of the provider, and the almost 50 % sharing of the 

 

Figure 8. Power vs. symbol × Carrier map of a DSS frame in case of 4G full 
traffic case; the 20 ms periodicity of the SSB is visible. 

 

Figure 9. Power vs. symbol × Carrier map of a DSS frame in case of 4G/5G 
balanced traffic.  



 

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frame between 4G and 5G signals in case of full 4G and 5G 
traffic shown in Figure 9 is just one possible choice. Different 
choices give a slightly different number of ’unused’ REs in case 
of fully filled frames. Consequently, the hypothesis of full use of 
the REs of the DSS frame carried out in the MPE procedure 
gives a conservative estimation of the maximum power level in 
case of full 4G/5G traffic for any possible distribution of the 
4G/5G data chosen by the providers, according to the 
precautionary principle applied to the evaluation of the 
electromagnetic exposure of the population.  

To verify the above observations, we have applied Eq. (3) and 
(4) to the full-loaded DSS signal in Figure 9. The PRS and 
PPBCH_DMRS have been measured in the code domain and are 
reported in Table 2. Then, a Channel Power measurement was 
performed on the same signal. The MPE and CP measurements 
are reported in Table 3.  

Results show that the use of Eq. (3) and (4) gives very close 
values, and confirm the conservative value obtained using MPE 
compared to the Channel Power result. 

5. CONCLUSIONS 

The EMF human exposure to DSS signals is a topic which is 
gaining growing interest among scientific community. In this 
paper the results of a study regarding the use of 4G or 5G MPE 
procedures for DSS signal are reported and found in good 
agreement with those reported in [19]. The DSS signals were 
generated by a base station emulator and transferred to the 
measurement instruments through an air interface adapter to 
obtain a controlled environment. This allowed to focus the 
analysis on the effect of the frame structure on the MPE 
procedure, excluding the random effects associated to fading 
phenomena affecting signals received in real environments.  

The analysis confirms that both the 4G and the proposed 5G 
MPE procedures can be used for MPE of DSS signals, provided 
that the correct number of subcarriers in the DSS frame is 
considered. 

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Table 2. RS and PBCH-DMRS power per RE. 

PRS -69.94 dBm 

PPBCH-DMRS -70.20 dBm 

Table 3. Comparison of MPE and CP measurement. 

4G MPE -38.90 dBm 

5G MPE -39.15 dBm 

CP -41.24 dBm 

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