Outage capacity of maximal ratio transmission based multi-cellular MIMO systems

In this paper, we analyze the performance of multi-cellular MIMO systems with co-channel interference from users within the same cell as well as from other cells. We initially assume that user power levels are deterministic. Then, we extend the channel model to include shadowing and path loss along with power control, resulting in a statistical model for user powers. We derive easily computable closed form outage probability expressions in the form of finite sums for both cases. It is found that using antennas on the receiver side results in better performance since transmit diversity does not combat interference from same cell users. It is also shown that the outage capacity increases more than linearly with increasing order of diversity.