The channel characterization and performance evaluation of mobile communication employing stratospheric platform

Author

Iskandar ; Shimamoto, Shigeru

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Global Inf. & Telecommun. Studies, Waseda Univ., Saitama, Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

3-7 April 2005

Firstpage

828

Lastpage

831

Abstract

The stratospheric platform or high altitude platform (HAP) is currently new proposal of wireless infrastructure in the near future. To provide high quality services, investigation of stratospheric platform channel is essential. This paper proposes the definition and the analysis of the narrowband wireless channel for the link between stratospheric platform and terrestrial users based on experiment in "semi-urban" environment. Narrowband channel characteristics are presented in terms of Ricean factor (K factor) and local mean received power over a wide range of elevation angles ranging from 10° to 90°. Finally in this paper, we performed average bit error probability evaluations based on the proposed channels model. For a given environment where the measurements were conducted, we found a better performance for elevation angles greater than 40°.

Keywords

Rician channels; error statistics; high altitude stratospheric platforms; mobile radio; quality of service; Ricean factor; bit error probability; high altitude platform; mobile communication; narrowband wireless channel; quality services; stratospheric platform channel; wireless infrastructure; Computer displays; Computer vision; Error probability; Frequency measurement; Mobile communication; Narrowband; Power measurement; Proposals; Receiving antennas; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, 2005. IEEE/ACES International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9068-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCACEM.2005.1469712

Filename

1469712