INSTRUCTION
In this experiment, we are going to investigate the co-channel interference in a cellular mobile
communication system. Assume that all cells have equal radii, and that base stations have
equal power and are located in the centers of each cell. Each base station transmits an
independent signal so that the co-channel signals' powers can be added directly. In our text
book, the system co-channel interference
is characterized by the interference at a specific position, e.g. at the fringe of a cell or at the
center of a cell. Because of the random position of a mobile subscriber (MS) and other
random factors, the co-channel interference is also a random variable. As known, interference
cancelation technique can greatly improve the system capacity in the cellular mobile system,
especially in the CDMA systems. It is helpful to know the distribution of the interference
when adopting interference cancelation techniques. Therefore, our experiment devotes to find
the distribution of the co-channel interference in the cellular mobile system with cluster size
N. Let us assume the cell radius R, each MS could appear at any position in the cell with
equal probability. The average received power Pr at a distance d from transmitter is
approximated as
, where P0 is the power received at a small distance d0 from
the transmitter and n is the path loss exponent. The experiment requirements are the follows.
DESCRIPTION OF THE EXPERIMENTS
1. Write a program to calculate the signal interference ratio (SIR) in the forward link,
and repeats it by randomly changing the position of the MS. After a number of
simulations, use the simulated results to draw the histogram of the SIR (S=I). Try to
obtain histograms with different path loss exponent n and cluster size N. Conclude
your results.
The co-channel interference in the forward link can be characterized in figure 1. A MS will be
interfered by the co-channel base station. In our simulation, we consider the 18 co-channel
cell, including 6 cells in the first loop and 12 cells in the second, no matter what the cluster
size N is.