The outage probability is defined as that an outage will occur within a given time period.

It
can also be defined as temporary suspension of the operation
The signal outage probability is calculated if one knows the probability
distribution of the fading either Rayleigh or Racian .The outage will take
place if the signal drops below the signal of the noise power level.
Calculation of the outage probability involves that we find the probability
that the signal-to-interference ratio that drops below a certain threshold. As
all signals that are fading have fluctuating signal powers,it mean that in
order to find the outage we must integrate the probability density functions
of all signals involved in fluctuating.

The Outage formula is given by

P(outage) =1 - P(SNR >z) =1 - Laplace(f ; z /ρ )

Where SNR is Signal to noise ratio, z is the minimum SNR required , f is

the probability distribution function of the power, ρ is the mean power of
the wanted signal.

In order to find the outage probability of a MIMO network we take a 4x4 MIMO and
would try to analyze the variation of the outage probability with the variation of
power budget.It has been shown in the results that with the increase in th power
budget the outage probability decreases. Also it is found from the graphs that the
outage of the waterfilling model is more in a MIMO than the MIMO system.

The outage probability in a MIMO system is given by ,

 SNR 
Pr (outage ) = Pr log 2 det( I + HH γ 
 Nt 

Where H is the channel matrix,I is the information transmitted, N t is the number of

the transmit antennas and H γ = ( H * H ) −1 H *

Héliot, Fabien, Hoshyar, Reza and Tafazolli, Rahim (2009) A closed-form approximation of the outage
probability for distributed MIMO systems In: IEEE 10th Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in
Wireless Communications, 2009. SPAWC '09, 21-24 June 2009

M. Kaynia, G. E. Oien, A. J. Goldsmith, and N. Jindal, "Outage probability in

wireless networks", Proc. IEEE Information Theory Winter School (ITWS), Loen,
Norway, March 2009.
Following are the graphs showing the outage capacity(probability) variation of a
SISO,SIMO,MISO,MIMO system with SNR

1
1x1 SISO at Pt=1.0
0.9 1x4 SIMO at Pt=1.00
4x1 MISO at Pt=1.0
0.8
4x4 MIMO at Pt=1.0
4x4WF MIMO at Pt=1.0
0.7
Outage Capacity

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
SNR
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1x1 SISO at Pt=0.5
0.9 1x4 SIMO at Pt=0.5
4x1 MISO at Pt=0.5
0.8
4x4 MIMO at Pt=0.5
4x4WF MIMO at Pt=0.5
0.7
Outage Capacity

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
SNR

Outage probability vs SNR for 4 bps/Hz

1
4x4 MIMO at Pt=0.2
0.9 4x4WF MIMO at Pt=0.2

0.8

0.7
--->

0.6
Outage Probability

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
SNR in dB --->

O u t a g e p r o b a b i l i t y v s S N R fo r 4 b p s / H z
1
4 x 4 M IM O a t P t = 0 . 3
0 .9 4 x 4 W F M IM O a t P t = 0 . 3

0 .8

0 .7
--->

0 .6
O utage P robability

0 .5

0 .4

0 .3

0 .2

0 .1

0
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
S N R in d B --->
 Outage probability vs SNR for 4 bps/Hz
1
4x4 MIMO at Pt=0.4
0.9 4x4WF MIMO at Pt=0.4

0.8

0.7
--->

0.6
Outage Probability

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
SNR in dB --->

1
4x4WF MIMO at Pt=0.2
0.9 4x4WF MIMO at Pt=0.3
4x4WF MIMO at Pt=0.4
0.8
4x4WF MIMO at Pt=0.5
4x4WF MIMO at Pt=1.0
0.7
Outage Capacity

0.6

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
SNR