MIMO Applications for Interference Mitigation in Multiple High Altitude Platform WCDMA Systems

In this paper we investigate the possibility of multiple HAP coverage of a common cell area. In particular we study the uplink system performance since it is considered as a worst case scenario. In order to obtain further enhancement (interference mitigation) we also apply space-time diversity techniques, such as Single-Input Multiple-Output (SIMO) receive diversity or Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) diversity, to improve the spectrum reuse in the multiple HAP scenario. We will show the level of improvement using SIMO and MIMO algorithms, the practical limits on the number of HAPs and SIMO/MIMO system dimension in response to traffic demands and the type of service used.