A General Exact Formulation for the Outage Probability in Interference-Limited Systems

—This paper presents a useful, novel formulation for the outage probability in interference-limited communication systems, here named Joint Outage Probability (JOP). Given a set of SIR restrictions for mutually interfering signals, the JOP corresponds to the probability that at least one of the restrictions is not satisfied. A general exact solution for the joint outage probability is derived, along with a necessary and sufficient condition for a non-null JOP. Furthermore, a closedform expression for the joint outage probability in a nonidentically distributed Rayleigh scenario with independent signals is obtained. The results presented here can be directly applied in a wide range of practical scenarios.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: GLOBECOM
• Authors: Flávio du Pin Calmon, Michel Daoud Yacoub
• Keywords: GLOBECOM 2008, Joint Outage Probability, JOP Corresponds, Non-null Jop, Telecommunications