Polarized Rician Fading Models for Performance Analysis in Cellular Networks

Polarization misalignment can significantly affect wireless communications and should be included in network models to facilitate a performance analysis and design. We therefore derive the distribution of the received signal power for the fading experienced by linearly polarized wireless links, which are misaligned by a fixed angle, and calculate the downlink outage and coverage probabilities in cellular networks using the tools from stochastic geometry. The derived model is therefore tractable and can provide insights into how we design cellular systems.