Improved analysis of the outage performance in cellular systems

Center for Wireless Communications, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093-0407, USA – fax: +1-619-534-2486 – e-mail: [email protected] Abstract— In this paper, the performance of cellular systems is studied, in terms of average and worst-case outage probability. The approach is based on a new analysis which allows to take into account the assignment of a mobile to the most favorable cell site, instead of the closest one. Other features, such as power control and diversity, are included, and the sensitivity of the performance to the fading parameter is studied.