Carrier to interference ratio analysis for the shotgun cellular system

  • Authors:

  • Prasanna Madhusudhanan;Juan G. Restrepo;Youjian Liu;Timothy X. Brown

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

  • Venue:
  • GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the carrier-to-interference ratio of the so-called shotgun cellular system (SCS). In the SCS, base-stations are placed randomly according to a two-dimensional Poisson point process. Such a system can model a dense cellular or wireless data network deployment, where the base station locations end up being close to random due to constraints other than optimal coverage. The SCS is a simple cellular system where we can introduce several variations and design scenarios such as shadow fading, power control features, and multiple channel reuse groups, and assess their impact on the performance. We first derive an analytical expression for the characteristic function of the inverse of the carrier-to-interference ratio. Using this result, we show that the carrier-to-interference ratio is independent of the base station density and further, we derive a semi-analytical expression for the tail-probability. These results enable a complete characterization of the cellular performance of the SCS. Next, we incorporate shadow fading into the SCS and demonstrate that it merely scales the base station density by a constant. Hence, the cellular performance of the SCS is independent of shadow fading. These results are further used to analyze dense cellular scenarios.