Outage Probability of MRC Corrupted by Multiple Unequal-Power Interferers and Correlated Rayleigh Fading

Author

Zhang, Xiaodi ; Beaulieu, Norman C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Alberta Univ., Edmonton, Alta.

fYear

2006

fDate

4-5 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Under the assumption that the branch gains of the desired user signal and the interfering signals experience Rayleigh fading and have the same correlation matrix, the outage probability of maximal ratio combining (MRC) in the presence of unequal-power cochannel interference (CCI) is derived for the two cases that the correlation matrix is equicorrelated and that the correlation matrix has different eigenvalues. The analysis allows an arbitrary number of cochannel interfering users and an arbitrary number of receiver antennas.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; cochannel interference; correlation methods; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; matrix algebra; probability; correlated Rayleigh fading; correlation matrix; eigenvalues; interfering signals; maximal ratio combining; multiple unequal-power interferers; outage probability; receiver antennas; unequal-power cochannel interference; user signal; Diversity reception; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Fading; Interchannel interference; Linear matrix inequalities; Radiofrequency interference; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Symmetric matrices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference, 2006. WAMICON '06. IEEE Annual

Conference_Location

Clearwater Beach, FL

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0849-0

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0849-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WAMICON.2006.351938

Filename

4161100