Capacity of SSTS for downlink‐distributed antenna systems in multicell environment

Abstract

SummaryWe put forward a novel single selection transmission scheme based on maximum desired signal criterion and investigate the capacity of distributed antenna systems in multicell environment. However, for most of the recent literatures, the interference plus noise is treated as Gaussian random variable with fixed variance by the central limit theorem, which ignores the effect of the short‐term fading on interference. To avoid it, non‐central limit theorem is adopted in which the variance of interference plus noise is considered as a random variable with changeable variance influenced by the short‐term fading. Moreover, channels are assumed to suffer from independent identical Rayleigh fading together with propagation path loss, and the closed‐form expression of capacity for distributed antenna systems is derived. Finally, extensive simulations are carried out to validate the theoretical analysis. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.