A study of performance degradation of small-cell radio systems caused by improper antenna positioning

A report is presented on the results of an extensive computer-simulation study of the cochannel interference caused by imprecise antenna locations. Interference problems are investigated for various percentage tolerances (which determine tolerance circles around ideal locations) and spatial distributions (which determine actual antenna location inside the tolerance circles) using the tenth percentile of the S/I distribution of the mature system as a criterion. One result shows that system performance is highly sensitive to large-percentage tolerances in later stages of cell-splitting. After analyzing the results, a method was developed to predict the performance of a general mature system with any number of cell sites, any cell radius, any set of percentage tolerances, and any set of spatial distributions