Statistical distributions of Rician factor for radio LOS propagation in urban microcells

Abstract

The Rician factor is an important parameter in evaluating the outage probability and reuse distance of cellular systems. From the measurement of 1.8 GHz radio propagation in outdoor urban microcells, it is found that the measured pdf of the Rician factor for low tier systems follows a lognormal distribution and the factor is independent on the propagation distance.