Efficient networking in an integrated HAP and mobile satellite system with optical links

Author

Korçak, Ömer ; Alagöz, Fatih

Author_Institution

Comput. Eng. Dept., Bogazici Univ., Istanbul

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Non-geostationary mobile satellite systems integrated with High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) may have great potential in the next generation telecommunication services. In this paper, we focus on establishment of optical links between HAPs and mobile satellites with limited number of optical transmitters. We formulate an optimization problem for matching HAPs and satellites in such a way that the utilization of HAPs is maximized together with the average elevation angle between HAPs and satellites. We also propose a method to avoid frequent switching of optical links. We solve the problem in a sample scenario for various system parameters, and discuss the reasonable selection of these variables.

Keywords

high altitude stratospheric platforms; mobile satellite communication; optical links; satellite links; average elevation angle; high altitude platforms; integrated HAP; nongeostationary mobile satellite system; optical links; optical transmitters; optimization problem; telecommunication services; Artificial satellites; Computer networks; Computer vision; Internetworking; Low earth orbit satellites; Mobile computing; Optical fiber communication; Optical transmitters; Propagation delay; Satellite broadcasting; high altitude platform; integrated systems; mobile satellite network; optical link;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, 2009. WOCN '09. IFIP International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4704-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3474-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOCN.2009.5010541

Filename

5010541