Outage performance of cellular systems over arbitrary lognormal shadowed Rician channels

Abstract

Techniques for analysing the outage performance for lognormal shadowed Rician fading channels are becoming of increasing importance as the concept of micro-cells is introduced into wireless personal communications. A general solution, however, has not yet been developed except for some special cases. The authors present an exact solution which takes the form of two-fold integrals, and is applicable to general situations without any restrictions.