High Altitude Platform for Wireless Communications and Other Services

Author

Elabdin, Z. ; Elshaikh, O. ; Islam, Rashed ; Ismail, Ahmad Puad ; Khalifa, Othman O.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Int. Islamic Univ. Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

fYear

2006

fDate

19-21 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

432

Lastpage

438

Abstract

High altitude platform stations (HAPs) is a new and promising technology which can serve a large number of users at low-cost and quick access to modern wireless communication services. This paper reviews on the system structure, the advantages of HAPs over terrestrial and satellite architectures and possible communications applications of HAPs. It also present an overview about some underway HAPs projects worldwide. Finally, it focuses on the technical challenges and critical issues of energy source, platform station keeping, modulation, coding, antennas design, propagation, diversity, interference and handoff issues.

Keywords

high altitude stratospheric platforms; radio access networks; antennas design; coding; communications applications; diversity; energy source; high altitude platform stations; interference; modulation; platform station keeping; propagation; system structure; wireless communications; Air traffic control; Aircraft; Condition monitoring; Fuels; Payloads; Remote monitoring; Satellites; Transponders; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. ICECE '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

98432-3814-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECE.2006.355663

Filename

4178499