Distribution of the number of users per base station in cellular networks

We consider the number of users associating with each base station in a cellular network. Extending and unifying the characterizations for certain settings available in the literature, we derive a result that is asymptotic in the strength of the shadowing, yet otherwise universally valid: it holds f...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: George, Geordie, Lozano Solsona, Angel, Haenggi, Martin
Format: article
Status:Versión aceptada para publicación
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repository:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/37117
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/37117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2018.2878579
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Cellular networks
User association
Number of users
Shadowing
Stochastic geometry
Multiuser MIMO
Poisson point process
Lattice networks
PP networks
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Summary:We consider the number of users associating with each base station in a cellular network. Extending and unifying the characterizations for certain settings available in the literature, we derive a result that is asymptotic in the strength of the shadowing, yet otherwise universally valid: it holds for every network geometry and shadowing distribution. We then illustrate how this result provides excellent representations in various classes of networks and with realistic shadowing strengths, evidencing broad applicability.