Outage probability comparison of distributed antenna diversity and single site antenna diversity

Author

Tong, F. ; Glover, I.A. ; Pennock, S.R. ; Shepherd, P.R. ; Whinnett, N. ; Aftelak, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Bath Univ., UK

fYear

2003

fDate

8-9 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

9

Abstract

In highly built-up urban areas, where shadowing is a severe problem, distributed antenna diversity represents a more effective fade mitigation scheme than conventional single site antenna diversity. It integrates the advantage of both micro and macro antenna diversities. In this contribution, a hybrid model using Gaussian fast fading and ray tracing is used to obtain the unconditional outage probability and the performance of the distributed antenna and single site antenna structures are compared. For the distributed antenna a comparison between coherent combining diversity and selection diversity schemes has also been made.

Keywords

antenna arrays; diversity reception; fading; mobile communication; probability; ray tracing; Gaussian fast fading; combining diversity scheme; distributed antenna diversity; fade mitigation scheme; macroantenna diversity; microantenna diversity; outage probability; ray tracing; selection diversity scheme; single site antenna diversity; Antenna arrays; Antennas and propagation; Diversity reception; Fading; Optical propagation; Ray tracing; Receiving antennas; Shadow mapping; Signal processing; Urban areas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Frequency Postgraduate Student Colloquium, 2003

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8123-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HFPSC.2003.1242294

Filename

1242294