At 1050, the network entity may determine the network total GD based on the transmit and receive times tt, tr. As indicated above with respect to FIG. 5, the transmit time tt represents a time just prior to the conversion of the digital symbols of the test signal to an RF signal for transmission and the receive time tr represents a time just subsequent to the conversion of the received RF signal back to the digital symbols. Thus, the network total GD, defined as a sum of the network transmission GD and the network reception GD, becomes (tr?tt?ts) where ts accounts for the separation between the transmit and receive antennas. If the separation is negligible, then the network total GD=(tr?tt).
The network entity may perform the process of FIG. 10 multiple times. The network entity may determine the total network GD for different combinations of transmit and receive antennas. If the network entity is part of an FDD system, then frequencies may be taken into account. For example, for a given transmit and receive antenna combination, the process may be performed for each operating frequency f Other factors such as the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) may also be considered.
