Accurate performance analysis of indoor distributed antenna systems for W-CDMA

Author

Nikolopoulos, Vasilis ; Saunders, Simon R.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Eng., Comput. & Math., Surrey Univ., Guildford, UK

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1873

Abstract

Performance analyses of in building distributed antenna (DA) systems for W-CDMA are presented. Uplink and downlink outage probabilities are related to the transmitted power, the shadowing statistics and the loading of the cell and it is observed that by deploying DA in a multi-floor environment the advantages in terms of both coverage and capacity are significant. However, capacity limitations are present due to the noise rise of home cell power controlled interferers, which give rise over thermal noise. In order to overcome these limitations two more flexible architectures, namely zoning and switching, are presented and compared.

Keywords

antennas; cochannel interference; code division multiple access; indoor radio; interference suppression; picocellular radio; power control; probability; telecommunication control; thermal noise; W-CDMA; capacity; cell loading; coverage; downlink outage probability; home cell power controlled interferers; in building distributed antenna systems; indoor distributed antenna systems; multi-floor environment; performance analysis; shadowing statistics; switching architecture; thermal noise; transmitted power; uplink outage probability; zoning architecture; Antennas and propagation; Capacity planning; Interference; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Probability; Shadow mapping; Signal processing; Statistics; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. Proceedings. VTC 2002-Fall. 2002 IEEE 56th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7467-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2002.1040541

Filename

1040541