Outage probability of radio cellular systems using maximal ratio combining in the presence of multiple interferers

Author

Cui, Jian ; Sheikh, Asrar U H

Author_Institution

Northern Telecom Electron. Ltd., Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

18-21 May 1998

Firstpage

731

Abstract

Antenna diversity is an important technique to combat fading and reduce co-channel interferer (CCI). We present an analytical approach to derive the outage probability (OTP) for maximal ratio combining (MRC) in the presence of multiple CCIs. Based on the work presented by Cui, Falconer and Sheikh (see Proceedings of PIMRC´96, Taipei, Taiwan, p.53-7, 1996), the probability density function (PDF) of the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) is derived with antenna diversity. A selection of numerical results highlights the impact of the number of antenna elements, the number of CCIs and SNR on the OTP. Since the PDF of the SINR is independent of any specific modulation signal, the results can be easily extended to any type of modulation format

Keywords

array signal processing; cellular radio; cochannel interference; direction-of-arrival estimation; diversity reception; fading; interference suppression; probability; PDF; SINR; antenna array; antenna diversity; antenna elements; cellular radio systems; co-channel interference reduction; maximal ratio combining; modulation format; modulation signal; multiple interferers; outage probability; probability density function; signal to interference plus noise ratio; Antenna arrays; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Fading; Modulation; Probability density function; Radiofrequency interference; Signal to noise ratio; Systems engineering and theory; Telecommunication computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1998. VTC 98. 48th IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4320-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1998.683678

Filename

683678