Performance evaluation of cellular mobile radio systems with interference ing of dominant interferers

This paper develops an analytical framework for characterizing the average symbol error rate and outage performance of a smart antenna system in cellular mobile radio environments. Specifically, the carrier-to-interference ratio statistics with N remaining (uncancelled) "weakest" cochannel interference (CCI) signals from a total of N_I signals are derived, given that both the desired user signal and the CCI signal amplitudes are subjected to Rayleigh, Rice, Nakagami-m, or Nakagami-q fading. General expressions for the outage probability and the average symbol-error rate performance of different digital modulation schemes in the presence of CCI signals are derived. Selected numerical results are presented to demonstrate the utility of the analysis in assessing the selective interference ing performance in different fading environments.