Effects of Rician fading and branch correlation on a local-mean-based macrodiversity cellular system

Author

Wang, Li-Chun ; Stüber, Gordon L. ; Lea, Chin-Tau

Author_Institution

Crawford Hill Lab., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

18-22 Nov 1996

Firstpage

550

Abstract

In a macrodiversity cellular system, switching radio links between base stations cannot be done instantaneously. Thus branch selection is usually based on the measurement of the slowly-varying local mean power rather than the rapidly-varying instantaneous signal power. We offer an exact mathematical model to analyze the performance of a local-mean-based macrodiversity cellular system in a shadowed-Rician (desired)/shadowed-Rayleigh (interfering) channel. We investigate the impact of both fading (Rician or Rayleigh) and shadowing in terms of co-channel interference (CCI) probability. We also present an analytical model to incorporate the effects of branch correlation on macrodiversity systems

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; cellular radio; cochannel interference; correlation methods; diversity reception; fading; land mobile radio; probability; radio links; radiofrequency interference; Rician fading; analytical model; base stations; branch correlation; branch selection; cochannel interference probability; exact mathematical model; interfering channel; local mean based macrodiversity cellular system; performance analysis; radio links; shadowed Rayleigh channel; shadowed Rician channel; slowly varying local mean power measurement; Base stations; Interchannel interference; Mathematical model; Performance analysis; Power measurement; Radio link; Radiofrequency interference; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; Shadow mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1996. GLOBECOM '96. 'Communications: The Key to Global Prosperity

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3336-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1996.594423

Filename

594423