In this paper, we analyze the uplink goodput (bits/sec/Hz successfullydecoded) and per-user packet outage in a cellular network using multi-userdetection with successive interference cancellation (MUD-SIC). We considernon-ergodic fading channels where microscopic fading channel information is notavailable at the transmitters. As a result, packet outage occurs whenever thedata rate of packet transmissions exceeds the instantaneous mutual informationeven if powerful channel coding is applied for protection. We are interested tostudy the role of macro-diversity (MDiv) between multiple base stations on theMUD-SIC performance where the effect of potential error-propagation during theSIC processing is taken into account. While the jointly optimal power anddecoding order in the MUD-SIC are NP hard problem, we derive a simple on/offpower control and asymptotically optimal decoding order with respect to thetransmit power. Based on the information theoretical framework, we derive theclosed-form expressions on the total system goodput as well as the per-userpacket outage probability. We show that the system goodput does not scale withSNR due to mutual interference in the SIC process and macro-diversity (MDiv)could alleviate the problem and benefit to the system goodput.
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