Outage probability evaluation for systems employing linear block codes on independent channels

Outage probability for systems employing such codes jointly with interleaving, frequency hopping or selection diversity, is evaluated. A unified formal description and a new evaluation algorithm have been developed and applied. In order to check their applicability to some microcellular systems, the behavior of such techniques is investigated in the presence of Rice/Rayleigh flat fading and co-channel interference. Their convenience is determined by taking into account the tradeoff between performance and spectrum efficiency.<>