Research on Diversity Combining for WiMAX Uplink Power Control

Power control is efficiently utilized to improve WiMAX system capacity. For the signal interference and noise ratio (SINR) balance criterion based power control technique, the co-channel interference and the diversity combination of base station antenna have important effect on the SINR. In this paper, co-channel interference (CCI) model for WiMAX networks is presented, the outage probability of SINR with respect to power control is derived based on the CCI model and finally, hard/soft limiting combining algorithms are proposed to reduce interference. Simulation results show that the proposed combining algorithms can suppress the co-channel interference and reduce the outage probability of SINR, so that the power control performance of WiMAX uplink can be improved.