ACHIEVABLE PERFORMANCE OF AUTONOMOUS SIR-BASED POWER-CONTROL

The Letter investigates the achievable performance in a TDMA system of an autonomous power control technique which relies only on a simple f ixed-step feedback adjustment algorithm. Simulation results indicate t hat this simple power control technique can perform nearly as well as ideal signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) balancing/call removal, yield ing a possible increase in spectrum efficiency of at least three times compared to a system without power control. The work is targeted towa rds understanding the traffic capacity and deployment implications to local exchange networks of wireless technology that could provide acce ss to those networks.