Outage Performance Of Macrodiversity Reception In The Presence Rayleigh Short-Term Fading And Co-Channel Interference

This paper presents a wireless macrodiversity communication system consisting of a receiver for macrodiversity selection combining (SC) receiver and two microdiversity SC receivers operating over correlated Gamma shadowed Rayleigh multipath fading environment in the presence of co-channel interference subject to Rayleigh short-term fading. First, we derive expression for cumulative distribution function of output signals of the both microdiversity SC receivers, and then capitalizing on it, we evaluate outage probability of the macrodiversity reception. The obtained probability outage results, both numerical and those obtained by simulation, as well as, the influence of Gamma long-term severity parameter and the correlation coefficient, are graphically illustrated and discussed.