An analytical approach to evaluate service coverage in slow frequency-hopping mobile radio systems

Author

Chiani, Marco ; Agrati, Ettore ; Andrisano, Oreste

Author_Institution

CSITE/DEIS, Bologna Univ., Italy

Volume

49

Issue

8

fYear

2001

fDate

8/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1447

Lastpage

1456

Abstract

The performance of a time-division multiple-access mobile radio system adopting slow frequency hopping is analyzed by following an original procedure that allows the evaluation of thermal noise and fast fading (e.g., Rayleigh) effects on block-coded transmission with nonideal interleaving. Starting from this approach, service coverage can be analytically evaluated when the “slow” disturbances affecting the transmission are fixed. The method proposed is able to take several impairments and parameters into account, such as shadowing and discontinuous transmission. The experimental results confirmed the validity of the theoretical approach

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; frequency hop communication; land mobile radio; time division multiple access; block-coded transmission; discontinuous transmission; fast fading; nonideal interleaving; service coverage; shadowing; slow frequency-hopping mobile radio systems; thermal noise; time-division multiple-access mobile radio system; Fading; Frequency diversity; GSM; Interference; Interleaved codes; Land mobile radio; Mobile communication; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Shadow mapping;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.939891

Filename

939891