Volume 21, Number 3, 309-328, DOI: 10.1023/A:1016076700413

Composite Macroscopic and Microscopic Diversity of Sectorized Macrocellular and Microcellular Mobile Radio Systems Employing RAKE Receiver over Nakagami Fading Plus Lognormal Shadowing Channel

Emad K. Al-Hussaini, Abdulaziz M. Al-Bassiouni, Hebatallah M. Mourad and Hamed Al-Shennawy

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Abstract

This paper presents a generalized model of binary phase shift keying (BPSK) direct sequence code division multiple access (DS/CDMA) macrocellular and microcellular sectorized mobile radio systems over Nakagami fading plus lognormal shadowing channels. RAKE receiver, perfect and imperfect sectorization, voice activity monitoring, microscopic and composite microscopic plus macroscopic diversity are considered. The interrelationships among the number of interfering cells, sectorization degree, sectorization imperfection, voice activity factor, fading parameter, microscopic diversity degree, microscopic plus macroscopic diversity degree and the number of users are considered. Numerical results show that voice activity monitoring and sectorization can reduce multiple access interference (MAI). Furthermore, composite microscopic plus macroscopic diversity system can counteract the fast and slow fading components simultaneously.

mobile cellular systems - diversity - Nakagami fading - RAKE receiver

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