Model for computing aggregate interference from secondary cellular network in presence of correlated shadow fading

The estimation of the total interference generated from a secondary system is essential for protecting the primary receivers. However, interference level estimation from a large number of secondary transmitters is a challenging problem. In this paper, we estimate the aggregate interference as an integration over the power spatial density in the secondary system's deployment area. We modify such integration-based model to contain the correlation in shadow fading. We apply the model on a cellular system downlink and study how well the proposed analytical model describes the interference level in correlated and non-correlated slow fading environment. The analysis indicates that for cell size less than five km the integration based model describes interference relatively well. For larger cell sizes, the interference is dominated by a few strong sources and has to be computed by summing over the power of all individual transmitters. It is also illustrated that the full correlated and independent slow fading provide two extremes of the amount of generated interference. The complex estimation of the impact of the fading cross correlation can be avoided by using those two extreme models as bounds to the interference level.

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