Co-Channel Interference
Sk Thaherbasha#, Dr. Ravindra Dhuli*
# Research Scholar, Dept. of ECE, Vellore Institute of Technology-Andhra Pradesh, Amaravathi
# Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE, Vellore Institute of Technology-Andhra Pradesh, Amaravathi
1 pn / p0
n 1
p The evaluation of Erlang capacity of WCDMA and OFDMA
p pi p n exp n (7)
p 0 n 1!
system under CCI has been done with various values of co-
p0 channel interferers. The capacity analysis has also been
The conditional co-channel interference probability can be performed with variation of different dynamic parameters such
derived from Equations 3, 5 and 7 as as voice activity factor and SNR values.
1 pn p0
p n 1
n
p p The parameters of WCDMA and OFDMA system considered
PCCI | n dpn exp d n dpd (8)
0 0
p0 p0 d n 1! p0 d p0
as shown in Table 1.
Table 1. Cellular system parameters
Finally, after integrating Eq. 8 the probability of CCI for n
interferers can be obtained as Parameter Value
n No. of interference channels 5,10
1
PCCI | n 1 (9) Voice activity factor V 0.5,0.6
p0 p0d 1 Data rates 128Kbps, 256Kbps, 512 Kbps
Where, P0 is the local mean power of the interference and P0d Spectral efficiency Seff 0.5, 0.8, 1.4 b/Hz/Sec
is the mean power of the desired signal. SNR Eb / N0 6dB,8dB
WCDMA
parameters of OFDMA (number of interferers active, mean OFDMA
power of the received interference, mean power of the desired
signal, Spectral efficiency, Voice activity factor and other
transmission parameters). 10
2
Erlang Capacity
0.09 37.40 114.62
0.1 41.78 127.87
1
10
From the above results if the P(CCI) is varied from 0.01 to 0.1
then the Erlang capacity is varies from 4 to 41.78 Erlangs/Cell
for WCDMA and 12.265 to 127.87 Erlangs/Cell for OFDMA
with 5 interfering channels. As the P(CCI) increases the 10
0
0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1
Erlang Capacity of Cellular systems is increases. P(CCI)
The variation of Erlang capacity of WCDMA and OFDMA- Fig.4.Variation of Erlang capacity under CCI with voice
based cellular systems under CCI with the number of co- activity factor
channel interfer K as 10, has shown in Fig.3. OFDMA-based cellular system under CCI with Signal to
10
2
Erlang Capacity for K=10
Noise Ratio (SNR) has shown in Fig.5 From these results the
P(CCI) is varied from 0.01 to 0.1 then the Erlang capacity
varies from 3.0 to 31.34 Erlangs/Cell for WCDMA and 9.19
to 95.90 Erlangs/Cell for OFDMA. As the voice activity
factor increases the Erlang capacity of WCDMA and OFDMA
Erlang Capacity
0
Erlang Capacity Under CCI Vs Blocking Probability
10
Erlang Capacity
1 -2
10 10
WCDMA
OFDMA
Blocking Probability
-4
10
-6
10
0
10
0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1
P(CCI) -8
10
Fig.5.Variation of Erlang capacity under CCI with SNR 8dB
Table 5. Variation of Erlang capacity under CCI with SNR -10
10
8dB 20 40 60 80 100 120
Erlang Capacity Erlang capacity under CCI [Erlangs/Cell]
P(CCI)
SNR=8dB Fig.8.Variation of OFDMA Blocking Probability with Erlang
WCDMA OFDMA capacity under CCI
0.01 3.00 9.19
0.02 6.06 18.52 5. CONCLUSION
0.03 9.12 27.80
In this paper a new method is proposed to evaluate capacity
0.04 12.20 37.30
(Erlangs/Cell) for WCDMA and OFDMA-based cellular
0.05 15.30 46.90
systems with tight frequency reuse factor (under CCI). The
0.06 18.40 56.50
probability of CCI is considered as Raleigh distribution
0.07 21.60 66.20
function for the Erlang capacity estimation. The Erlang
0.08 24.80 76.06 capacity results are evaluated, analyzed and compared for
0.09 28.07 85.96 WCDMA and OFDMA cellular systems with various values
0.1 31.34 95.90 of co-channel interferers, voice activity factor and SNR
P(CCI) vs Blocking Probability
values. The Erlang capacity of a WCDMA and OFDMA-
0
based cellular system is more effected with more number of
10
co-channel interferers, high value of voice activity factor and
10
-5 high value SNR value. Hence while designing a WCDMA and
OFDMA-based cellular system we have to consider the effect
Blocking Probability
-15
OFDMA CCI is useful for the accurate estimation of blocking
10
probability of WCDMA and OFDMA-based cellular systems.
10
-20 These estimated values are useful to provide inherent
protection from co-channel interference (CCI) in WCDMA
10
-25
and OFDMA-based cellular systems.
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