Modeling And Analysis Of Wireless Networks Using Poisson Hard-Core Process

Due to its mathematical tractability, the homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP) has been employed to model wireless networks and analyze their performance. The PPP has the fundamental property that in a network with n nodes, the n nodes are distributed independently from each other. As such the PPP is not a suitable model for many networks where there exists a repulsion among the nodes. In order to address this limitation, in this paper we model the spatial distribution of transmitters in wireless networks as a Poisson hard-core process (PHCP) in which no two nodes can be closer to each other than a given repulsion radius from one another. We first provide an exact expression of the coverage probability of the networks and then introduce the method to efficiently evaluate the derived expression. Additionally, we derive approximations of the coverage probability which have low computational complexities. The accuracy and efficiency of our analytical results are validated by our simulations.