Investigations into cochannel interference in microcellular mobile radio systems

A microcell interference model termed the Nakagami m_x/m_y model is introduced. The desired signal and the cochannel interferers are assumed to have Nakagami statistics but with different amounts of fading. A special case of this model is obtained when the desired signal has Nakagami statistics while the cochannel interferers are subject to Rayleigh fading. The probability density function of the signal-to-interference ratio in the Nakagami model is derived. This model is also compared with a Rician/Rayleigh microcellular model. Expressions for the outage probabilities in microcell systems are derived. Numerical results show that, compared to medium/large cell systems, the microcellular systems have a lower outage probability. The impact of diversity on the microcellular system is also studied. An improvement of the outage probability due to diversity is observed