HALO (High Altitude Long Operation): a broadband wireless metropolitan area network

Author

Akyildiz, Ian F. ; Wang, Xiongfei ; Colella, Nicholas J.

Author_Institution

Broadband & Wireless Networking Lab., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

271

Lastpage

275

Abstract

The High Altitude Long Operation (HALO) network is a broadband wireless metropolitan area network whose solitary hub is located in the stratosphere above the service area. One of several possible architectures of the HALO network and the corresponding system reference model are presented in this paper. A simulation model was developed for the chosen architecture. Several experiments were performed upon it under various traffic conditions to model the performance of the network

Keywords

aircraft communication; broadband networks; cellular radio; digital simulation; metropolitan area networks; personal communication networks; radio networks; stratosphere; telecommunication traffic; HALO aircraft; HALO)network; High Altitude Long Operation; airborne communications network hub; broadband wireless metropolitan area network; cellular communication systems; experiments; network architecture; network performance; personal communication systems; satellite networks; service area; simulation model; stratosphere; system reference model; terrestrial wireless networks; traffic conditions; Aircraft; Bandwidth; Communication networks; Low earth orbit satellites; Metropolitan area networks; Propagation delay; Telecommunication traffic; Terrestrial atmosphere; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Multimedia Communications, 1999. (MoMuC '99) 1999 IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5904-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MOMUC.1999.819500

Filename

819500