Up-link analytical outage evaluation for slow frequency hopping mobile radio systems

In a shadowing-free environment, the improvement introduced by slow frequency hopping (SFH) on a TDMA-based mobile radio system can be taken into account by properly re-defining the minimum carrier-to-interference protection ratio. This protection ratio, with SFH, is dependent on the transmission system, channel model, traffic and frequency reuse parameters. The approach is used in order to analytically investigate the up-link capacity of a SFH mobile radio system, by taking into account a complete scenario, i.e. shadowing, fast fading, power control, antenna diversity, discontinuous transmission and forward error correction (FEC) with non-ideal interleaving and sectorization