A comparison between outage probability evaluations in microcellular systems

The effects of cochannel interference in a UHF microcellular system operating in a Rician/Rayleigh fading environment are investigated. The aim is to prove in the microcell domain the validity of a simplified analytical methodology, already successfully applied in, traditional cellular structures, which allows one to evaluate almost effortlessly the outage probability, i.e. the probability of fading to achieve a satisfying signal-to-interference ratio. The results obtained confirm the validity of this approach in the microcell environment, for a wide range of the parameters involved in the system