Outage probability in personal communication systems in the presence of Rice fading

Many studies have dealt with the outage probability evaluation for mobile radio systems in faded/shadowed propagation environments and the main results available in the literature consider Rayleigh fading and log-normal shadowing or, eventually, Rice-Rayleigh fading without shadowing. An algorithm for the outage probability evaluation when the propagation medium suffers Rice fading, log-normal shadowing, a power loss inversely proportional to a power of the distance transmitter-receiver, additive white Gaussian noise and the radios randomly distributed on the ground is presented. The method is general, simple and fast, so that it can be applied in the comparison of system performance for different system parameters in personal communication systems. Examples of application of the algorithm to different radio layouts are given in the paper