Microcellular radio performance in a Rayleigh/Rician cochannel interference environment

In a recent paper Haug and Ucci (see IEEE International Conf. on Communications, p.306, 1992) investigated the case in which the desired signal in Rayleigh faded and a cochannel interferer is Rician faded. It was assumed in that study that the coverage area is interference-limited and not noise-limited. In the present report it is further required that a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) sufficient to give satisfactory radio reception be present at the receiver. An analytic expression for outage probability under these conditions is determined