JOINT EFFECTS OF COCHANNEL INTERFERENCE, FADING, SHADOWING AND NOISE ON OUTAGE PROBABILITY

The effects of cochannel interference and noise in a radio link charac terised by fading and shadowing are considered. An approximate express ion to evaluate outage probability in the presence of noise and a Rice channel with log-normal shadowing superimposed, both for the useful s ignal and the interferers, is presented. The method can be applied to the performance evaluation of cellular mobile radio systems. The accur acy of the approximation is discussed. A Monte-Carlo simulation method to confirm the numerical results has been applied.