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Traffic Models and Blocking Probabilities for Two-Fold and Three-Fold SDMA Communication Systems

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Spectrum efficiency is a constant challenge in the design of wireless networks. Space-division-multiple-access (SDMA) is a promising approach to achieve higher spectral efficiency which reuses bandwidth via multiplexing signals based on their spatial signature. Several different studies have shown that SDMA can effectively improve system capacity in a mobile environment. In this paper, we present a new Markov chain traffic model for a duplicate-at-last (DL) approach [IEE Proceedings on Communication 146 (1999) 303] in two-fold and three-fold SDMA systems. Simplified blocking probability formulations for two-fold and three-fold SDMA are also derived. Simulations based on a common method of spatial separation check for channel allocation in SDMA are presented to evaluate the probability of successfully creating two-fold and three-fold SDMA channels. The simulation, as well as analytical, results indicate that the SDMA system can reduce the blocking probability of the calls and result in more traffic loading than a traditional cellular system. The results also show that our simplified approaches not only can reduce the computational complexity, but can also accurate approximate two-fold and three-fold SDMA performance.

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    Wen-Jye Huang

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    John F. Doherty

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Wen-Jye Huang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tatung Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1991, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Ohio University, Athens, OH, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, in 2001.

Since 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Kwei-San, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, as an assistant professor. His research activities include smart antenna, SDMA, and MC-CDMA techniques.

John F. Doherty received the B.S. degree (with honors) in engineering science from the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, in 1982, the M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1990. He was an integrated circuit reliability engineer with IBM, from 1982 to 1984. From 1985 to 1988, he was member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, working in sonar signal processing.

In 1990, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Iowa State University, Ames, as an assistant professor and Harpole Entair fellow. He is currently an associate professor of electrical engineering with The Pennsylvania State University, University Park. His current research activities include interference rejection in wireless communication systems, spatial-division multiple-access techniques, and radar target detection techniques. He is a former AFOSR summer faculty research fellow at the Rome Laboratory, Rome, NY, and an Army Research Office Young Investigator.

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Huang, WJ., Doherty, J.F. Traffic Models and Blocking Probabilities for Two-Fold and Three-Fold SDMA Communication Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 34, 279–305 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-4111-z

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