Co-channel interference of microcellular systems on shadowed Nakagami fading channels

The probability of cochannel interference is evaluated for a microcellular environment with log-normal shadowing and Nakagami fading. For the case when the interfering signals have the same shadowing and fading statistics, an exact mathematical expression is presented for the probability of cochannel interference. For the case when the interfering signals have different shadowing and fading statistics, the probability of cochannel interference is evaluated by approximating the individual interfering signals as having a log-normal distribution, and then applying Schwartz and Yeh´s method to obtain a purely log-normal distribution for total interference, while maintaining a composite Nakagami log-normal distribution for the desired signal