Forward-Link Capacity Analysis for MC-CDMA

Hyukmin SON
Sanghoon LEE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.10    pp.4094-4096
Publication Date: 2005/10/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.10.4094
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
forward link capacity,  outage probability,  MC-CDMA,  multi-carrier code division multiple access,  

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Summary: 
OFDM-based networks utilizing the frequency reuse factor of 1 may produce the severe ICI (intercell interference) at the cell boundary even though overall cell capacity is increased and network deployment is facilitated. In the forward-link, the ICI may rise above a QoS (quality of service) threshold beyond some distance from BSs (base stations). In this paper, we analyze the forward-link capacity of an MC-CDMA system as a function of the ICI according to the distance from a cell. To achieve this goal, a closed form of the outage probability is derived and utilized to obtain the accommodated number of users and system parameters.