System Outage Probability Analysis of Uplink Distributed Antenna Systems over a Composite Channel

Abstract

This paper studies the system uplink outage probability in distributed antenna systems (DAS). Firstly, owing to the complexity of actual wireless environments, this paper establishes a composite channel model which takes path loss, lognormal shadowing and Rayleigh fading into account. Then, the probability density function (PDF) of the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived. After that, an analytical expression of the uplink outage probability for the MS over a given position is obtained after employing the selective transmission (ST) scheme. Further, considering the distribution of MSs in the cell, a closed-form expression of the system outage probability is derived. Numerical results show that the closed-form expression of the system outage probability can provide sufficient precision for evaluating the outage performance of DAS.