George, GeordieLozano Solsona, AngelHaenggi, Martin2019-04-172019George G, Lozano A, Haenggi M. Distribution of the number of users per base station in cellular networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 2019 Apr;8(2):520-3. DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2018.28785792162-2337http://hdl.handle.net/10230/37117We consider the number of users associating with each base station in a cellular network. Extending and unifying the characterizations for certain settings available in the literature, we derive a result that is asymptotic in the strength of the shadowing, yet otherwise universally valid: it holds for every network geometry and shadowing distribution. We then illustrate how this result provides excellent representations in various classes of networks and with realistic shadowing strengths, evidencing broad applicability.application/pdfeng© 2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2018.2878579info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2018.2878579Cellular networksUser associationNumber of usersShadowingStochastic geometryMultiuser MIMOPoisson point processLattice networksPP networksinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess