Area spectral efficiency of street microcell environment

The spectral efficiency of cellular systems with variable-rate transmission has been studied in the literature. The area spectral efficiency defines the sum of the maximum average data rates per unit bandwidth per unit area supported by a cell´s base station. In this article, we obtained the area spectral efficiency of the street microcellular environment. For different cell layout structures, the efficiency of the of the street microcellular environment for the worst-case and best-case interference configurations are calculated. Furthermore, Monte Carlo simulations are developed to estimate the value of the area spectral efficiency for average interference conditions. The same figures are also obtained for different fading characteristics namely, log-normal shadowing and Nakagami multipath fading