OUTAGE PROBABILITY IN MULTIPLE-ACCESS PACKET RADIO NETWORKS IN THE PRESENCE OF FADING

The outage probability in a mobile communications environment, where t he interferers are randomly distributed on the ground, taking into acc ount the background noise, the co-channel interference and the random effects of propagation (log-normal shadowing and Rayleigh fading), is evaluated. Although not feasible in closed form, the computation can b e performed numerically in a very fast and accurate manner. A comparis on to the results reported in the recent literature is presented, alon g with a sensitivity analysis and an example of application.