Outage Probability in Multiple Access Packet Radio Networks in the Presence of Fading

The outage probability in a mobile communications environment, where the interferers are randomly distributed on the ground, taking into account the background noise, the cochannel interference and the random effects of propagation (lognormal shadowing and Rayleigh fading), is evaluated. Although not feasible in closed form, the computation can be performed numerically in a very fast and accurate manner. A comparison to the results reported in the recent literature is presented, along with a sensitivity analysis and an example of application.