On High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) UMTS-HSDPA

Author

Ahmed, Bazil Taha

Author_Institution

Escuela Politecnica Superior, Univ. Autonoma de Madrid

fYear

2006

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

223

Lastpage

226

Abstract

In this work, the performance of HAPs (high altitudes platforms) UMTS HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) is studied for different HAPs height h, different cells radius R and two directions (0deg and 30deg) within the cell. It is noticed that, for urban zone users, the effective range is lower than the effective range for users in rural zones. Also it is noticed that in rural zone, the HSDPA mode can support the modulation 64QAM which is a modulation scheme out of the HSDPA standard. When the number of users is increased to two, it is noticed that, only the QPSK modulation can be used when the non-orthogonality factor phi is 0.5 (users are in urban zones)

Keywords

3G mobile communication; high altitude stratospheric platforms; packet radio networks; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; radio access networks; 64QAM; HAP; QPSK; UMTS HSDPA; Universal Mobile Telecommunication System; high altitudes platform; high speed downlink packet access; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 3G mobile communication; Antenna measurements; Artificial satellites; Downlink; Gain measurement; MIMO; Multiaccess communication; Power control; Power measurement; Satellite broadcasting; HAPs; HSDPA; UMTS; W-CDMA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology, 2006. The 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-5-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECWT.2006.280476

Filename

4057479