Outage and BER with microdiversity and correlated macrodiversity

Author

Mukherjee, Sayandev ; Avidor, Dan

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

6

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1728

Abstract

We focus on maximum ratio combining at each base station and switching between base stations as a simple macrodiversity technique. We obtain analytical results for outage (uncovered fraction of a cell) and bit error rate for systems using one or a combination of both techniques to cover a desired area, assuming a certain correlation model for the set of path losses of the links connecting a terminal to the receiving base stations. Outage probabilities and bit error rates are averaged over the entire region of interest to get an estimate of the outage fraction in the desired region

Keywords

cellular radio; correlation methods; diversity reception; error statistics; probability; BER; base station; bit error rate; cellular radio; correlated macrodiversity; correlation model; maximum ratio combining; microdiversity; outage fraction; outage probability; path losses; Base stations; Bit error rate; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Information geometry; Joining processes; Rayleigh channels; Solid modeling; Yield estimation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7097-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2001.937089

Filename

937089