Title :
Effect of macrodiversity and microdiversity on outages and bit error rates in a cellular system
Author :
Mukherjee, Sayandev ; Avidor, Dan
Author_Institution :
Lucent Technol. Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We focus on maximum ratio combining at each base station and switching between base stations as a simple macrodiversity technique, We obtain analytical results for outage (uncovered fraction of a cell) and bit error rate for systems using one or a combination of both techniques to cover a desired area, assuming a certain correlation model for the set of path losses of the links connecting a terminal to the receiving base stations. Outage probabilities are averaged over the entire region of interest to get an estimate of the outage fraction in the desired region
Keywords :
cellular radio; diversity reception; error statistics; BER; base station; bit error rates; cellular system; correlation model; macrodiversity; maximum ratio combining; microdiversity; outages; path losses; Base stations; Bit error rate; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Information geometry; Joining processes; Loss measurement; Rayleigh channels; Solid modeling; Yield estimation;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Confernce, 2000. WCNC. 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6596-8
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2000.903930
