Variable Rate Transmission for Higher System Capacity in a Signaling-Only Wireless System

Khaled MAHMUD
Masugi INOUE
Hiroyuki MORIKAWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.5    pp.2210-2214
Publication Date: 2005/05/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.5.2210
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Terrestrial Radio Communications
Keyword: 
variable rate transmission,  integrated wireless networks,  basic access network,  MIRAI,  

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Summary: 
System capacity of a wireless system can be improved greatly by using variable rate transmission. Assuming a low-rate and wide-coverage signaling-only wireless network, in this paper we evaluate, analytically and numerically, the extent of this improvement for various schemes with variable transmission rates. We considered log-normal shadowing as well as the effect of Rayleigh fading. Simulation results show close proximity with the analytical predictions.