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More specifically, it has been the widely spread experience that practical field assessment of the Signal-to-Noise and Interference Ratio (SINR), being the key physical-layer performance indicator, involves quite sophisticated test instrumentation that is not always available outside the lab environment. So, in this regard, we present here a simpler test model coming out of the much easier-to-measure Bit Error Rate (BER), as the latter can deteriorate due to various impairments regarded here as equivalent with additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) abstracting (in terms of equal BER degradation) any actual non-AWGN impairment. 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