Overlapping cell area in different fading conditions

Abstract

This paper examines the joint statistics of paths to two base stations and estimates the proportion of cell area within which the mobiles are considered to have adequate communication with two or more adjacent base stations in different fading conditions. The calculations are carried out on the instantaneous power basis, where the signal envelope is assumed to follow the Nakagami distribution. It is shown that a substantial proportion of cell area may be considered to have adequate communication with more than one base station but this is greatly dependent on the fading conditions.