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Wireless network signals with moderately correlated shadowing still appear Poisson

Networking and Internet Architecture 2016-10-04 v2 Information Theory math.IT Probability

Abstract

We consider the point process of signal strengths emitted from transmitters in a wireless network and observed at a fixed position. In our model, transmitters are placed deterministically or randomly according to a hard core or Poisson point process and signals are subjected to power law path loss and random propagation effects that may be correlated between transmitters. We provide bounds on the distance between the point process of signal strengths and a Poisson process with the same mean measure, assuming correlated log-normal shadowing. For "strong shadowing" and moderate correlations, we find that the signal strengths are close to a Poisson process, generalizing a recently shown analogous result for independent shadowing.

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@article{arxiv.1606.05825,
  title  = {Wireless network signals with moderately correlated shadowing still appear Poisson},
  author = {Nathan Ross and Dominic Schuhmacher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05825},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Ver2: 41 pages, expanded discussion, references, and simulations; Ver1: 38 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-22T14:28:40.101Z