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Downlink System Capacity Analysis in Distributed Antenna Systems

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This paper focuses on the downlink system capacity in distributed antenna systems (DAS). Due to the complexity of actual wireless environments, a composite channel model is established which takes into account three factors, i.e., path loss, lognormal shadowing and Rayleigh fading. Based on the channel model, the probability density function (PDF) of the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived. To facilitate the analysis, the distribution of the output SNR is approximated by a lognormal distribution. After that, by making use of selective diversity (SD) scheme for distributed antennas, an approximate analytical expression of the capacity for a mobile station (MS) over a given position is derived. Furthermore, considering the distribution of MSs in the system, a closed-form expression of the system capacity is obtained. Numerical results show that the closed-form expression can evaluate the system capacity performance of DAS very accurately.

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  1. Key Laboratory for Information System Security of Ministry of Education, School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Jun-Bo Wang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Jun-Bo Wang

  3. College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China

    Jun-Bo Wang & Jin-Yuan Wang

  4. National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, 210096, China

    Ming Chen

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Wang, JB., Wang, JY. & Chen, M. Downlink System Capacity Analysis in Distributed Antenna Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 67, 631–645 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-011-0401-9

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